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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.
Verboticisms
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Mesmerradiate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: mez - mur - AID - ee - ait
Sentence: Ever the technogeek, Clarence believed if he could mesmerradiate with sufficient concentration that he could actually speed up the cooking process of his microwave.
Etymology: Blend of mesmerize (to compel by fascination) and irradiate (to heat with radiant energy)
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COMMENTS:
MESMERRADIATE is great!
Good one, Centurion! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:05:00
You are getting hungry...you are going to cook faster...and when Isnap my fingers you won't remember any of it! Good word, Mustang. - Nosila, 2008-07-01: 12:41:00
I'm mesmerized. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-02: 03:36:00
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Culinlinger
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: cul LIN ling ER
Sentence: Freddy’s culinlingering over his melting cheese-dog was partly due to his poor eating habits. He battled time, skipped meals, to become an over-bearing oaf in the kitchen. Leaning into the microwave, he imagined the appliance responded to his throbbing appetite with soothing efficiency.
Etymology: From: culinary and linger.
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COMMENTS:
culinmerry word - Nosila, 2009-11-10: 17:16:00
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Psychowave
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sīkōwāv
Sentence: Wendall thinks he can control the cook time of his microwave with his psychowave powers. If he concentrates, he can cut the time it takes to make popcorn by several seconds. He has tried using his mental powers for other things like affecting the flight of the football when the Ravens attempt a field goal but that hasn\'t worked so well.
Etymology: psycho (relating to the mind or psychology) + microwave (short for microwave oven)
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COMMENTS:
Heh! beat me to it. :) - galwaywegian, 2009-11-10: 06:19:00
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Dishfulthinking
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: DISHFUHL-thingk-ing
Sentence: Roxie planned to impress Bob's new boss by cooking for him a meal fit for a god. But the evening quickly turned into a noshtradamian nightmare, when Roxie, following the recipe given to her by her best friend, added spam rather than ham to the dish. The anticipated ambrosia became in a minute a shambrosia, leaving Roxie, to wonder whether she had been the victim of gastronimical gall or simply of a careless case of "cordon blur". When Bob arrived home he found her in front of the microwave, quickly trying to heat-up a meal labelled "Feast in Five Minutes." It looked liked a cesserole, made from the flotsyum you'd find in a fridgeridoo: it was all desperate dishfulthinking.
Etymology: Blend of DISH: n. The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food, especially prepared food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods." --Shak. & WISHFUL THINKING –n. interpretation of facts, actions, words, etc., as one would like them to be rather than as they really are; imagining as actual what is not.
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COMMENTS:
WOW! What a corucopia of originality. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:08:00
I meant "cornucopia"...as in:
"That sentence was cornucopious".
- metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:09:00
Does Roxie spamalot? Cute word! - Nosila, 2008-07-01: 12:38:00
great word Ozzie - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-01: 13:44:00
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Cooklook
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: kook-look
Sentence: Unimpressed with the alacrity of his microwave to defrost his frozen burrito, Bob resorted to giving his mealcicle the cooklook, willing it with his mind to get done an astonishing .005 seconds faster.
Etymology: cook, look, and rhymes with cookbook
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COMMENTS:
I suppose Bob also "looked steak knives" instead of daggers. - petaj, 2007-04-24: 05:33:00
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Eggon
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eh gone
Sentence: he would regularly eggon the food in his microwave, convinced the warm feeling in his head was his brain adding extra heat to the oven, rather than vice versa.
Etymology: to egg on, to encourage
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COMMENTS:
Nice one - but I don't have any votes left today :-( - petaj, 2007-04-24: 23:39:00
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Fryovision
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: fry-o-vi-shun
Sentence: I am sure that my super powered fryovision makes the food in the microwave cook faster.
Etymology: fry + o + vision
Telekinvection
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: TELL-IH-KIN-VEC-SHUN
Sentence: Staring into the water did not hasten it's boiling, but gazing thru the microgrid convinced me that TELEKINVECTION was a force to be reckoned with....
Etymology: TELEKINESIS-affecting the properties of something using the formidable power of brainwaves. CONVECTION-an "old school" method of cooking using a direct heat source.
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COMMENTS:
TELEKINesis+conVECTION
http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/
- metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:01:00
A word to be reckoned with! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-02: 03:35:00
LOL You need to write a book! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-25: 14:15:00
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Mindoverbatter
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: meye-nd-oh-fer-bath-er
Sentence: the souffle rose due to her extraordinary mindoverbatter powers. Now she no longer uses an oven. Al gore is making a documentary about it and hoping she can refreeze Glacier National park.
Etymology: mind- the brain over- prepositioon. matter - as in material of any sort. batter - material of a baking / cooking sort.
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COMMENTS:
Great play on words! - Stevenson0, 2007-04-24: 12:43:00
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Gloatmeal
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: glowt/meel
Sentence: His morning breakfast consisted of gloatmeal and juice
Etymology: gloat (stare) + oatmeal
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic.
Thank you Osomatic! ~ James
Mustang - 2008-07-01: 08:09:00
The chef was no doubt a man of principle who would stick by his convections.
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic. Thank you Osomatic. ~ James