Verboticism: Dishfullthinking
DEFINITION: v. To pace, stare or drool in front of your stove or microwave, in an effort to use sheer willpower to make your food cook faster. n. A watched pot, pie or pudding.
Dishfullthinking
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: dish/ful/think/ing
Sentence: With only minutes left before his guests arrived he resorted to dishfullthinking to cook the frozen lasagne in time for dinner
Etymology: wishfull thinking + dish (as in dish up food/cook)+ dishfull as in full dish
Points: 410
Comments: Dishfullthinking
emmyb2 - 2007-04-24: 11:11:00
funny!
Stevenson0 - 2007-04-24: 12:44:00
Best word of the day!!!