Verboticisms

Created by: jack189

Pronunciation: dis-gust-i-size

Sentence: Mary was going to make a simple stew, but she put so many spices in, she disgustisized it!

Etymology: Disgust(from disgusting, or horrible)+ isize(suffix used to make word a verb)

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Created by: Niarc

Pronunciation: Muff - ay

Sentence: The guests stared at the table in silence, wondering who would take the first bite. Susan had once again concocted one of her infamous muffets.

Etymology: A combination of 'Buffet' - a system of serving meals in which food where the diners serve themselves, and 'Muff' - A mistake or failure

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COMMENTS:

I'm sorry to have to ask, but is it just one word per user per definition? - Niarc, 2013-01-18: 05:51:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: SES-uh-rohl

Sentence: Roxie's "piece de resistance" was her cesserole - an annigobnoxious alimentation - barely edible once a year. Bob often wondered whether it would end in cuisinecide!

Etymology: Blend of "CESS" from cesspool & CASSEROLE: a baking dish; any food, usually a mixture, cooked in such a dish. Noun : cesserole; Verb: to cesserole.

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COMMENTS:

very tasteful! - galwaywegian, 2008-01-14: 06:38:00

great sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-01-14: 15:31:00

I liked cusinecide even better than cesserole ... but that's only cause I'm so easily grossed out. Today's definition certainly led to a lot of verboticisms that can do that! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-14: 18:48:00

great words! Ugh, I'm grossed out too. - bananabender, 2008-01-14: 19:56:00

Ah, I can just picture little kernel of corn floating in it, eww. Good one! - Tigger, 2008-01-15: 00:05:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: kweh-ZEEN-de-grayd

Sentence: Caroline's one specialty was in the area of cuisinedegrade....she could make even beef wellington taste and look like pet food.

Etymology: Blend of 'cuisine' (a style or quality of cooking; cookery) and 'degrade' (lower the grade of something; reduce its worth)

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Created by: yellowbird

Pronunciation: swill-if-eye

Sentence: Joan swillified her bouillabaisse to such a degree that she won an award from the James 'soup-in-Beard' Foundation. When she proudly placed the award next to her Gold Medal Horrible Haggis trophy, her husband simply sighed and put another frozen dinner in the microwave.

Etymology: swill + petrify

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COMMENTS:

I love SWILLIFY! - metrohumanx, 2008-11-14: 02:45:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: paləterəbəl

Sentence: Joan hates to waste anything. This includes food that she has kept a bit too long. Just last week she tried to pass off on her boy friend a palaterrible sandwich, made with sticky coldcuts that were making their own mayonnaise. He thought better of it and went out for lunch.

Etymology: palatable (pleasant to taste) + terrible (extremely and shockingly or distressingly bad or serious)

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /styoo-ij/

Sentence: From the smell, Ron thought that the kitchen sink had backed up again, and he was making toward the closet with the plunger, when Bridget ran into him in the hall and said, "You do remember that my mother's coming over today, right? Oh, and I'm making lutefisk — it's a Swedish delicacy." We'd be having stewage for dinner tonight.

Etymology: Blend of 'stew' - to cook by simmering or slow boiling (Middle English, stewen "to bathe in a steam bath") & 'sewage' - liquid and solid waste carried off in sewers or drains (from Anglo-Fr. sewere "to drain off water")

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COMMENTS:

Clever! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-14: 11:48:00

funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-01-14: 11:51:00

Think I prefer a smorgasbord - but lets not get in a stew! Nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-14: 19:18:00

Served by a steward of course! - bananabender, 2008-01-14: 22:29:00

good word! - bananabender, 2008-01-14: 22:32:00

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Cat-ass-tro-nom-ik

Sentence: No matter what meal Amelia prepared it always ended up a complete catastronomic affair. Her husband Joe was even thinking of divorce to save him from going bankrupt by having to order takeaways every evening.

Etymology: Catastrophic(a complete disaster) + Gastonomic(the art of cooking) ORIGIN Greek gastronomia from gaster 'stomach'

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COMMENTS:

great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-11: 08:06:00

as appealing a meal as the ass of a cat. Like it. - rombus, 2008-11-11: 10:55:00

I like it - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-11: 21:29:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: a/la/come/ode

Sentence: A local eatery serves their dinner alacommode. The chairs which are really toilet seats come in very handy to cleanse the palate between courses.

Etymology: a la mode + commode (toilet)

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: naw-zheets

Sentence: Alta's cooking was so disgusting that it was named nauseats by the poor wretches who came to dinner unaware of her atrocious cooking skills.

Etymology: nausea:the sensation that preceeds vomiting; feeling of disgust or revision + eats: food

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