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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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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)
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"
Ersatcipe
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: ur-SATZ-uh-pee
Sentence: Leonardo was considered a master chef, but a trifle overprotective of his concoctshuns. His ERSATCIPE for renaissance rarebit was written in a strange mirrored code in the margins of his greasy diary, a sort of rosettascone of cookery. Leo was less than forthcrumbing about the ratios and quantities involved. Some said he was a Crunchausen who defectoformulated his dishes to conceal certain outgredients. When scholars deciphered and prepared them, they all agreed there was a certain flavoid in them all. Was the legendary Leonardo pseudosharing on purpose? His Plum pudding had no plums, his mincemeat pie contained no mincemeat, and his chowders were no better than a bowl of steam. Clearly, his ERSATCIPES lacked a certain...something. Even in this age of turkey byproducts and chicken pellets, brilliant minds still struggle to reproduce his most famous ERSATCIPE......the CORN DOGE.
Etymology: ERSATz+reCIPE=ERSATCIPE.........ERSATZ:being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation;German ersatz-, from Ersatz, noun, substitute.....RECIPE: a set of instructions for making something from various ingredients;Latin, take, imperative of recipere to take, receive.
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COMMENTS:
DOGE:the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa;Italian dialect, from Latin duc-, dux leader. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:25:00
I used to collect recipes until I discovered this website:
www.blackstump.com.au/recipes.html - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:29:00
I used to collect recipes until I discovered this website:
www.blackstump.com.au/recipes.htm
www.blackstump.com.au/recipes.html - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:29:00
Awww....just go here:
http://www.blackstump.com.au/ - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:31:00
fabulous story - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-26: 11:23:00
great puns ... my favorite is outgredients! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-26: 12:51:00
Thanks all. You can blame that darned NOSILA for making me PUN-ch drunk.
Her prolific PUNDAZZLEMENT is beginning to influence me. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:02:00
Reading today's words made me famished. A new place called "The Dog House" just opened near me. I hope it's not a clip joint. later. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:45:00
Great story!Glad my puns ignite your inner punster! When you go to the Dog House, have a toast for the rrest of us... Muzzle Tov! - Nosila, 2008-11-26: 20:47:00
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Ood
Created by: earljw
Pronunciation: Just like it reads: ood
Sentence: Me: What's for supper? She: My usual, ood.
Etymology: Food - f = ood
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COMMENTS:
Cute word! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-22: 18:21:00
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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
Missymessypees
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: Miss -ee - Mess - uh - pees
Sentence: The young maid decided to make a magic brew, a love potion number two ... to use on you! From the oysterman she took a single oyster crab, because her magic book of recipes, called for just a dab. After letting it set in chocolate sauce overknight, by morning, it was ready ... just seemed so right! But she forgot the incantation that it required, also. Without the chant ... unenchanted ... his love would never grow! So he remained maidless ... due to her missing word link! Those missedoutrecipes, are not worth a zip to drink. "Nun for me!" ... we say to those Missymessypees!
Etymology: (1) Missy - for the missing part. Messy - to describe what it makes. Pees for the last sillybull (pun intended) of recipes! (2) Miss is synonmous with maid as well ... and missy, is what men do when the maid is gone ... and messy they become, when the maid is gone! (3) Too many double (maybe triple) meanings in lots of this ... so feel free to write your own etymologies for those you see!
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COMMENTS:
charming - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-26: 11:25:00
Love the poetic license! - Nosila, 2008-11-26: 20:42:00
Ha! Great one! - lumina, 2008-11-27: 01:59:00
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Ingredinyet
Created by: xirtam
Pronunciation: in-gree-dee-nyet
Sentence: I tried making the Chili following the directions Bob gave to me. It wasn't the same, it was missing something. What was that last ingredinyet that he "forgot"?
Etymology: Ingredient: Latin ingrediēns - something that enters as an element into a mixture. + Nyet: Russian – No.
Alamodeification
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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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.
Bluffanowings
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: bluff - a - no - wings
Sentence: Marcy was ecstatic. She had finally talked John into giving her his secret recipe for Buffalo wings. It had taken months of wrangling and cajoling but, here it was...neatly written on a 3x5 index card. John made the best Buffalo Wings she had ever had. They were just the right amount of zip, crunch, meat and bones. Every morsel was a bite to be savored. What she was not aware of was that she really had his receipe for Bluffanowings. As she read through the recipe, and imagined herself making them for the first time, she wondered to herself "how does he make them look like wings?"
Etymology: The word Bluff (to mislead or deceive) is combined with Buffalo (as in Buffalo Wings) to start the word. After Bluff, the last part of Buffalo is replaced with ano which is a combination of the word And and No. Finally, the last part of BuffaloWings is added with "Wings". The whole thing is just a play on the popular appetizer....but with no Wings.
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COMMENTS:
very good - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-26: 11:18:00
That sentence literally made my mouth water. Thanks, mysterious Mweinmann. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:12:00
Will have to settle for a bouffle (souffle) instead. - petaj, 2008-11-26: 19:28:00
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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