Verboticisms

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: ur-SATZ-uh-pee

Sentence: Leonardo was considered a master chef, but a trifle overprotective of his concoctshuns. His ERSATCIPE for renaissance rarebit was written in a strange mirrored code in the margins of his greasy diary, a sort of rosettascone of cookery. Leo was less than forthcrumbing about the ratios and quantities involved. Some said he was a Crunchausen who defectoformulated his dishes to conceal certain outgredients. When scholars deciphered and prepared them, they all agreed there was a certain flavoid in them all. Was the legendary Leonardo pseudosharing on purpose? His Plum pudding had no plums, his mincemeat pie contained no mincemeat, and his chowders were no better than a bowl of steam. Clearly, his ERSATCIPES lacked a certain...something. Even in this age of turkey byproducts and chicken pellets, brilliant minds still struggle to reproduce his most famous ERSATCIPE......the CORN DOGE.

Etymology: ERSATz+reCIPE=ERSATCIPE.........ERSATZ:being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation;German ersatz-, from Ersatz, noun, substitute.....RECIPE: a set of instructions for making something from various ingredients;Latin, take, imperative of recipere to take, receive.

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DOGE:the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa;Italian dialect, from Latin duc-, dux leader. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:25:00

I used to collect recipes until I discovered this website: www.blackstump.com.au/recipes.html - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:29:00

I used to collect recipes until I discovered this website: www.blackstump.com.au/recipes.htm www.blackstump.com.au/recipes.html - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:29:00

Awww....just go here: http://www.blackstump.com.au/ - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:31:00

fabulous story - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-26: 11:23:00

great puns ... my favorite is outgredients! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-26: 12:51:00

Thanks all. You can blame that darned NOSILA for making me PUN-ch drunk. Her prolific PUNDAZZLEMENT is beginning to influence me. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:02:00

Reading today's words made me famished. A new place called "The Dog House" just opened near me. I hope it's not a clip joint. later. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:45:00

Great story!Glad my puns ignite your inner punster! When you go to the Dog House, have a toast for the rrest of us... Muzzle Tov! - Nosila, 2008-11-26: 20:47:00

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Created by: rombus

Pronunciation: pole - tree - guy - st

Sentence: Amanda was disappointed. It looked like she had created a poultrygeist this Thanksgiving. She couldn't understand why her roast duck, BBQ chicken and most of all, her beloved deep fried Turkey did not look or taste the way that they should. She thought this would be a true poultry smorgasbord, extravaganza....especially since she had obtained all of Aunt Martha's secret receipes.

Etymology: The word "Poultry" starts off this word. We know that poultry is not usually foul but is really "fowl". The word "Geist" is German and is difficult to translate but is often used to mean mind, spirit or ghost.

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COMMENTS:

very fitting this week - great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-26: 11:17:00

clever word - silveryaspen, 2008-11-26: 12:45:00

EXCELLENT word,Rombus! Nice segue from Halloween, too. got a vote from me. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:09:00

Amanda is clearly a victim of Fowl Play! Great word. - Nosila, 2008-11-26: 20:40:00

great contribution - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-27: 02:10:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: thin greed e ent

Sentence: When Maria gave in to requests for her recipes, she was always careful to thingredient them, so repro's never were as devine as her originals. This was fine until they hired a lab manager at work. Her contat fear was that he might get wise...

Etymology: Thin (having little substance or significance;lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture)& Ingredient (a component of a mixture or compound)

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: oh-mit-stir-ee

Sentence: The cassarole that Teddy served was fantastic. Too bad he decided to keep the recipe as an omitstery and not tell me what the filling was made of. This really shows the level of his ingreedience.

Etymology: Omit+ mystery

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Maybe Teddy left out 'soylent green' ("Soylent Green is people!"). Ingreedience is a good one too. - Tigger, 2007-11-25: 18:59:00

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Created by: mvsmyth

Pronunciation: obb-fuss-kayk

Sentence: Rupert swore he followed every step of the recipe exactly as written, but the resulting gateau convinced him that Karin had clearly obfuscaked him by withholding a key ingredient.

Etymology: Combination of "obfuscate", meaning to make unclear or unintelligible, and "cake", being a type of food to which this act might be applied.

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: owt-grē'dē-ənt

Sentence: Teresa smiled to herself after writing out, and handing the recipe for her famous 'pumpkin-apple tarts,' to Janice -- when Janice had begged her to write it down from memory, Teresa had warned her that she was somtimes forgetful -- and now, she realized she had forgotten to include the sugar; an 'outgredient' if you will. 'They certainly will be tart,' Teresa thought to herself, with a chuckle.

Etymology: out (Middle English, outen "to put out") + [in]gredient (Latin, ingrediēns - present participle of ingredī, to enter)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: rong kok shun

Sentence: No one could figure out why Marianne made the best chili in the family. When they tried to copy her old family recipe, it never tasted the same. One day her nephew Charlie, a criminalogical forensic chemist, decided to analyze the ingredients in a batch she had made. When he compared it to the recipe she had given him it was no wonder he kept making a wrongcoction. There was no evidence of beef, tomato, beans or known spices in the original recipe. To this day, her wrongcoction remains an unsolved mystery to Charlie.

Etymology: Wrong (not in accord with established usage or procedure) & Concoction (any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients;the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components)

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COMMENTS:

clever - petaj, 2008-11-26: 02:40:00

When I said it out loud, it sounds a tad bit risque and made me giggle! Wow ... what a fun word! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-26: 03:17:00

Please bring a covered dish to the First Annual International Verbotomy Festival and Bake-Off scheduled for 2010 (location TBA)....no tupperware please. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:42:00

And how about that sublime BEEF-A-REENO that cleared the house last Christmas? - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:31:00

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Created by: xirtam

Pronunciation: in-gree-dee-nyet

Sentence: I tried making the Chili following the directions Bob gave to me. It wasn't the same, it was missing something. What was that last ingredinyet that he "forgot"?

Etymology: Ingredient: Latin ingrediēns - something that enters as an element into a mixture. + Nyet: Russian – No.

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: POT lak

Sentence: Everyone was asked to bring a personal dish to the reunion picnic. There was a large variety of delicious treats, and almost everyone was asked by at least one person for his/her recipe. People seemed to be giving out their recipes in a willing and friendly manner. For the following year's reunion, many people tried to reproduce the yummy items. But it ended up being a mediocre potlack because almost everyone had left out at least one ingredient in his/her "special" dish so it could never be made as well by anyone else.

Etymology: potluck + lack

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tasty - Nosila, 2009-12-16: 01:10:00

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: res-ih-pee-on-aje

Sentence: Jack was always more than happy to share his "secret formula" for his fried catfish blend of 11 herbs ans spices. It was just too bad that everytime he shared it was a clear case of recipeionage as all eleven herbs and spices listed were "all spice", leaving the recipient of the ingrediuent list bemused and disappointed.

Etymology: recipe + espionage

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This is good one....sounds like a mission. - mweinmann, 2008-11-26: 09:32:00

great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-26: 11:20:00

has a great sense of mystery - silveryaspen, 2008-11-26: 13:02:00

Javk sent me his recipe for Stuffed Babbage...but it didn't quite make it. I LOVE spy formulas. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:29:00

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