Verboticism: Dishfullthinking

'Wow! My brainwaves are melting cheese!'

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.

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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

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Comments: Dishfullthinking

emmyb2 - 2007-04-24: 11:11:00
funny!

Stevenson0 - 2007-04-24: 12:44:00
Best word of the day!!!