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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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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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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:
Grillpower
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: gril pow er
Sentence: Aman's power to cook food quickly with his mind was quickly discovered and exploited. He could melt a smelt; toast a roast or stew a gnu. His grillpower was so strong that his girlfriend, Dinah, was afraid that he'd advertise this under her name. But he called his new cookers Amana...
Etymology: Grill (cook over a grill) & Willpower (the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior)
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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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
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- 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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Focuspocus
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: foh-kuhs-poh-kuhs
Sentence: He had the wing of a red wattler, the milk from a bovine and the sauce of a Newman (Paul), with a little focuspocus on the Frazier Grill his meal would be complete in no time.
Etymology: Focus - Hocuspocus
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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Salibake
Created by: americanogig
Pronunciation: Sal eh bake
Sentence: Gregory began to wonder if his popcorn would be sufficiently popped by the next millennium. Since all other conventional means had failed him, he decided to pull out his tried and true method of salibaking. After willing the kernels to burst forth in buttered glory he boasted of his amazing ability to semi-instantly salibake.
Etymology: From salivate and bake
Yoquieroqueso
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: En espanol, pinche guero.
Sentence: Dude, I totally yoquieroquesoed that burrito last night, I ate the whole thing before I realized the power was out.
Etymology: I want it, you want it, if you don't, you don't even know what's up. Sorry, find out.
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