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'You made that without using a real turkey?'

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.

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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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Reskipe

Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: res/kip/ee

Sentence: While shopping for the ingredients, something told Suzanne that something was just not right. How could THIS be all that was inside Julia's DELICIOUS casserole? She swore she tasted ground turkey, but why wasn't it on the list? It wasn't until the strange concoction was pulled out of the oven that Julia realized Jan had managed to slip her yet another reskippee.

Etymology: recipe + skip

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COMMENTS:

metrohumanx Hahaha. Good one, Lumee. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:40:00

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Shambrosia

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: sham-BROH-zhuh

Sentence: Roxie planned to impress Bob's new boss by cooking for him a meal fit for a god. But the evening quickly turned into a noshtradamian nightmare, when Roxie, following the recipe given to her by her best friend, added spam rather than ham to the dish. The anticipated ambrosia became in a minute a shambrosia, leaving Roxie to wonder whether she had been the victim of gastronimical gall or simply of a careless case of "cordon blur".

Etymology: Shambrosia n. blend of sham: trick, hoax, fraud & ambrosia: used of various foods for mortals since 1685. Cognate: shambrosiate vb. 2, Noshtradamian: (nosh & nostradamus) 3.Gastronimical: (gastronomical & inimical) 4. Cordon blur (pun on cordon bleu).

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COMMENTS:

wonderful - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-22: 09:38:00

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Ingredomit

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: in-greed-oh-mit

Sentence: Getting a real turkey was one important imgredomit that the diners at the party did not appreciate.

Etymology: ingredient + omit

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Nongrediant

Created by: bzav1

Pronunciation: non - greed- ee- ant

Sentence: Marybeth went to her grave knowing her nongredient would result in others producing a less satisfying stuffing.

Etymology: non - greed (it really is greed,isn't it?) ee - ant(the most democratic beast of the animal kingdom)

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Culensconce

Created by: jajsr

Pronunciation: c-uh-en-sk-uhn-se

Sentence: Debbie knew she'd been culensconced, because she followed Dave's receipe and it still didn't taste like his.

Etymology: Combination of the beginning of "culinary" and the word "esconce"

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Misgrent

Created by: patrick12345

Pronunciation: miss/grint

Sentence: To think my mom thought i would give her my misgrent for my apple pie.

Etymology: missing+ingredient

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Misreciprentation

Created by: hendrixius

Pronunciation: /mis-ress-uh-pren-tay-shun/

Sentence: In a blatant misreciprentation of the facts, Tommy neglected to mention the teaspoon of curry he always added for that special flavor.

Etymology: "misrepresentation" and "recipe"

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Recispurious

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: resəspyoŏrēəs

Sentence: The chorus around the holiday table is always **Mine never taste as good as Granny*s**. She smiles to herself knowing that the cards she had printed detailing her famous apple pie are recispurious. No sugar? Shouldn*t they know better? In any case, Granny is sure to keep her edge on the other women in the family for now.

Etymology: recipe (a set of instructions for preparing a particular dish, including a list of the ingredients required) + spurious (not being what it purports to be; false or fake)

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Omitstery

libertybelle

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: oh-mit-stir-ee

Sentence: The cassarole that Teddy served was fantastic. Too bad he decided to keep the recipe as an omitstery and not tell me what the filling was made of. This really shows the level of his ingreedience.

Etymology: Omit+ mystery

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COMMENTS:

Maybe Teddy left out 'soylent green' ("Soylent Green is people!"). Ingreedience is a good one too. - Tigger, 2007-11-25: 18:59:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-11-22: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-12-15: 00:34:00
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James