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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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Pacebaker
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: PASE bay ker
Sentence: Phil's wife calls him "The Pacebaker" because he walks a regular rhythm, back and forth, back and forth, "thump, thump, thump," the whole time his food is in the microwave. He seems to think he can keep it going and urge it along.
Etymology: pace + baker, a play on the word "pacemaker"
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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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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Acelerocallefy
Created by: emmyb2
Pronunciation: a-se-le-ro-ca-li-fy
Sentence: My acelerocallfying was of no use; the quiche still had 10 minutes left to bake.
Etymology: acelero--to accelerate callefy-to warm
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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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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Psychrowave
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sigh crow wave
Sentence: He psychrowaved the burger and sat on the buns to warm them.
Etymology: microwave psyche
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COMMENTS:
Is that like a person who "seers" his meat because he likes them "medium"? - Nosila, 2011-03-29: 23:34:00
well done Nosila - galwaywegian, 2011-03-31: 05:12:00
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Mindboiling
Created by: heb319
Pronunciation: mind-boy-ling
Sentence: He focused intently on soup in an attempt to mindboil it to the appropriate temparature in half the usual time.
Etymology: mind-using the power of the brain; boiling--heating up
Telecooknetics
Created by: joearcher
Pronunciation: telly-cook-neticks
Sentence: I was so desperate for my beans on toast I was using telecooknetics to speed up the toaster
Etymology:
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