Verboticism: Wrongcoction
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.
Wrongcoction
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rong kok shun
Sentence: No one could figure out why Marianne made the best chili in the family. When they tried to copy her old family recipe, it never tasted the same. One day her nephew Charlie, a criminalogical forensic chemist, decided to analyze the ingredients in a batch she had made. When he compared it to the recipe she had given him it was no wonder he kept making a wrongcoction. There was no evidence of beef, tomato, beans or known spices in the original recipe. To this day, her wrongcoction remains an unsolved mystery to Charlie.
Etymology: Wrong (not in accord with established usage or procedure) & Concoction (any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients;the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components)
Points: 602
Comments: Wrongcoction
petaj - 2008-11-26: 02:40:00
clever
silveryaspen - 2008-11-26: 03:17:00
When I said it out loud, it sounds a tad bit risque and made me giggle! Wow ... what a fun word!
metrohumanx - 2008-11-26: 10:42:00
Please bring a covered dish to the First Annual International Verbotomy Festival and Bake-Off scheduled for 2010 (location TBA)....no tupperware please.
metrohumanx - 2008-11-26: 14:31:00
And how about that sublime BEEF-A-REENO that cleared the house last Christmas?