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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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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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Kilnthyme
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kiln tyme
Sentence: When he came home from school, Sammy was always starving. He ran to the fridge, grabbed whatever looked good, seasoned it and stuck it in the oven to warm, so he could eat soon. He believed if he lay on the floor and watched it through the window in the stove, he could compel it to be ready quicker. The first time his Mom saw him lying there, she yelled, "Yo, Prone Ranger! What are you doing?" To which Sammy replied, "Me? Why I'm just kilnthyme!"
Etymology: Kiln (Oven ) & Thyme (Savoury herb;leaves can be used as seasoning for almost any meat and stews and stuffings and vegetables;any of various of the genus Thymus) & Play on Killin' time (To spend time doing nothing in particular in order that it seems to pass more quickly).
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COMMENTS:
An alltyme favourite! - splendiction, 2009-11-10: 18:01:00
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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:
funny! - emmyb2, 2007-04-24: 11:11:00
Best word of the day!!! - Stevenson0, 2007-04-24: 12:44:00
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Nourishove
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: NUR-ish-UVV (nourishovittles)
Sentence: Impatiently waiting to cook a confection- That just won’t succumb to telekinvection? Petition more power to come from above… Psycho-cook faster with a long NOURISHOVE !
Etymology: NOURISH (nourishment): something which gives sustenance to a living organism. food: Middle English nurishen, from Anglo-French nuriss-, stem of nurrir, norrir, from Latin nutrire to suckle, nourish; akin to Greek nan to flow, noteros damp, Sanskrit snauti it drips.....SHOVE: to force by other than physical means, to compel; Middle English, from Old English scūfan to thrust away; akin to Old High German scioban to push and probably to Lithuanian skubti to hurry.
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COMMENTS:
Sanskrit snauti: it drips !*?!! - metrohumanx, 2009-11-10: 05:48:00
- hoping for a strong nourishove to my pizza! Good one! - splendiction, 2009-11-10: 18:05:00
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Cravewave
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: crave/wave
Sentence: When hunger completely occupies his mind, he cravewaves his food with a little help from the nuker.
Etymology: crave + microwave + brainwave
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COMMENTS:
Excellent word!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-24: 08:31:00
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Watchedpotamy
Created by: babel
Pronunciation: watched-pot-am-ee
Sentence: Jason enjoyed indulging his watchedpotamy by microwaving a series of 20 pound frozen turkies on defrost setting.
Etymology: a watched pot never boils...
Concenbake
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: kon - sen - bayk
Sentence: Trudy needed to have the cake ready for the baby shower but a series of events put her behind. She looked at the cake through the oven window and began to concenbake so that it would bake faster; or so she believed.
Etymology: concentrate, bake
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COMMENTS:
bunderful - galwaywegian, 2009-11-10: 14:56:00
flantastic word - Nosila, 2009-11-10: 17:25:00
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Brainwater
Created by: Emilpersia
Pronunciation: Brainwater, Brainwater is the water inside the brain. Like a orange the brain also got water inside it...
Sentence: Sciences have showen the human race that brainwater is real.
Etymology:
Freyes
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: frize
Sentence: As he was late for class, Curt gave his food the freyes, willing it to cook much faster.
Etymology: fry, eyes
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