Verboticism: Delessious
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.
Delessious
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: diˈlesh əs
Sentence: Millie made the best pies in the county. She had the blue ribbons to prove it. She never wrote down her recipes so when asked she would write them from memory. Somehow they never turned out the same. Hers were delicious, theirs delessious. Maybe the fact that she would "forget" some key ingredient, by accident of course, had something to do with it.
Etymology: delicious (highly pleasant to the taste) + less (a smaller amount of; not as much)
Points: 731
Comments: Delessious
Jabberwocky - 2008-11-26: 11:21:00
nice
metrohumanx - 2008-11-26: 14:38:00
Mmmm Pies are the zenith of dessert making.
Nosila - 2008-11-26: 20:38:00
Good word...less is more!