Verboticisms

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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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: left/ow/turs

Sentence: I agreed to host a Thanksgiving leftovers party but the recipes I found on line were more like leftouters

Etymology: left out + leftovers

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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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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: owt-grē'dē-ənt

Sentence: Teresa smiled to herself after writing out, and handing the recipe for her famous 'pumpkin-apple tarts,' to Janice -- when Janice had begged her to write it down from memory, Teresa had warned her that she was somtimes forgetful -- and now, she realized she had forgotten to include the sugar; an 'outgredient' if you will. 'They certainly will be tart,' Teresa thought to herself, with a chuckle.

Etymology: out (Middle English, outen "to put out") + [in]gredient (Latin, ingrediēns - present participle of ingredī, to enter)

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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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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: men eye owe you

Sentence: Due to his forgetfulness, the menu became a meniou, his duck a l'orange became duck a l'oh oh.

Etymology: menu IOU

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kond kok shun

Sentence: Everyone wanted Grandpa's recipe for his "Rattlesnake Stew". He had made it many times and it was always a different and unique connedcoction. His old friends always asked for the recipe, but he told them it was a guarded family secret. We called it what it really was..."Clean out the Fridge Stew". Proof positive lay in the vast ingredients, which changed weekly: mystery meats like roast beef slices,pieces of cut-up wieners,ham bits, pork chop chunks, chicken fingers, sardines...you get the picture. They were flavored by various bits of peas, corn, beans, pickles, spuds and noodles. All ingredients were of indeterminate age. It inspired my brother to do his dissertation on the fact that most seniors actually get sick and die from food poisoning: Children of the Depression and War-time Rationing who used up all food they hoarded, no matter it's shelf-life.

Etymology: Conned (deprived of by deceit;a swindle in which you cheated)& Concoction (any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients;an occurrence of an unusual mixture;the invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose)

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: a/la/mode/i/fi/cay/shun

Sentence: Sally's piece de resistance at the end of a meal was her famous homemade ice cream. When guests begged for her recipe she always gave then the one with the alamodeification.

Etymology: a la mode + modification

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COMMENTS:

Perhaps you left 'Alamo' out of your etymology deliberately??? What a clever way to convey the failure of the alamodeification! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-26: 13:00:00

A tip of the hat to a MASTER verbotomist. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:11:00

Great word...I'dlike some vanilla right now myself! - Nosila, 2008-11-26: 20:43:00

Great word. Also brings to mind of events at SAN ANTONIO, Texas in 1836. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-27: 02:16:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: betty-CROCK-up

Sentence: My sister hates it when her cooking is outdone by anyone else. She has given out a few bettycrockups to ensure her cuisine reigns supreme.

Etymology: Betty Crocker (famous for her recipes) + cock up (disaster)

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COMMENTS:

Yes i've seen a few episodes of iron chef in my time. - petaj, 2007-11-23: 02:29:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ress-uh-PAW-city

Sentence: Horace jealously guarded the recipes he'd crafted over the years and when asked for any of them he would always leave out two or three crucial ingredients, thereby creating something of a recipaucity rather than a complete recipe.

Etymology: Blend of 'recipe', and 'paucity' ( an insufficiency; dearth) A play on the word 'reciprocity' (A mutual or cooperative interchange of favors or privileges)

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COMMENTS:

Like it...clever - mweinmann, 2008-11-26: 09:31:00

Brilliant! - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:38:00

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