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DEFINITION: v., To leave out an important ingredient when you are sharing a favorite recipe so that no one else can make it taste as good as yours. n., A recipe that is missing one or more key ingredients.
Verboticisms
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Voidcipe
Created by: mana1066
Pronunciation: voyd-suh-pee
Sentence: If I make aunt carols avacado salad without avacados, noone will know it's hers. it will be my very own voidsipe
Etymology: void+recipe
Missapeeded
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation:
Sentence: This don't taste right,I think she missapeeded me again.Martha Stuart would never do such a thing,prison taught her better you know.
Etymology:
Recipionage
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ress-er-pee-a-narzh
Sentence: as i tasted the chocolate cake i had just made, the flavour of the anchovies was overwhelming...it was then i realised i had been a victim of recipionage
Etymology: recipe, espionage
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COMMENTS:
ha, funny! - remistram, 2007-11-22: 09:41:00
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Degrediate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Dee-greed-ee-ate
Sentence: Whenever he was asked to pass on one of his original recipes Clarence always made sure to degrediate the recipe of one of the most important ingredients.
Etymology: de = to remove or undo + ingredient
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COMMENTS:
how degrediating! - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-22: 09:47:00
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Obfuscake
Created by: mvsmyth
Pronunciation: obb-fuss-kayk
Sentence: Rupert swore he followed every step of the recipe exactly as written, but the resulting gateau convinced him that Karin had clearly obfuscaked him by withholding a key ingredient.
Etymology: Combination of "obfuscate", meaning to make unclear or unintelligible, and "cake", being a type of food to which this act might be applied.
Ingrediaint
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: in-gree-dee-eynt
Sentence: Sally always bugs Jason for his recipes. Somehow her versions never turn out the same as his. This might be because of the ingrediaints, those little components or techniques he "forgets" to tell her about.
Etymology: ingredient (something that enters as an element into a mixture) + ain't (is not)
Thingredient
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: thin greed e ent
Sentence: When Maria gave in to requests for her recipes, she was always careful to thingredient them, so repro's never were as devine as her originals. This was fine until they hired a lab manager at work. Her contat fear was that he might get wise...
Etymology: Thin (having little substance or significance;lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture)& Ingredient (a component of a mixture or compound)
Recippease
Created by: kabloozie
Pronunciation: RES i peez
Sentence: Every time I make that apricot pie, my neighbor bugs me for how it's done - I finally caved, but in the recippease I gave her, I left out the cardamon and lemon zest, which is what really makes it special.
Etymology: recipe + appease
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COMMENTS:
Damn it, now you all know!!! - kabloozie, 2007-11-22: 00:54:00
Ha! And all this time I've been adding cardoon. - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-22: 06:44:00
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Hoaxture
Created by: DaddyNewt
Pronunciation: HOKS/tur
Sentence: It was clear, as we all passed the jello mold and drank, that Jim had fallen for a hoaxture.
Etymology: hoax + mixture
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COMMENTS:
BEWARE the Jell-o shots. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:32:00
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Chickenanery
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: chik/en/an/ury
Sentence: A devious friend played some serious chickenanery when she gave me a foolproof recipe for chicken divan. It turned out to be just divan.
Etymology: chicanery (deception) + chicken
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COMMENTS:
Very good! Wish I'd thought of it first. - Mustang, 2007-11-22: 07:40:00
Tremendous! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-22: 16:09:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James