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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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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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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:
Microslavering
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: my/crow/slave/ur/ing
Sentence: When conventional cooking wasn't fast enough he resorted to microslavering. It was messy but he made sure to wear a bib.
Etymology: microwave + slaver (drool or dribble)
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COMMENTS:
Nice ring about it! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-02: 03:52:00
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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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Jeangrelieve
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: jeen - gree - leev
Sentence: Bobby can keep on staring at that piece of shit but jeangrelieving, honestly, won't turn that pile of crap to a Louvre masterpiece.
Etymology: Jean Grey (X-Men) + believe
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...
Psygoocazer
Created by: mitchchick
Pronunciation: s-eye-goo-cAYzer
Sentence: I psygoocazered that piece of cheese on my hotdog.
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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
Psychothermalize
Created by: Pasicheio
Pronunciation: Sigh-Ko-Thurm-A-Lies
Sentence: Dan psychothermalized the hotdog, to no effect
Etymology: Psyche; Thermal
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