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DEFINITION: v., To leave out an important ingredient when you are sharing a favorite recipe so that no one else can make it taste as good as yours. n., A recipe that is missing one or more key ingredients.
Verboticisms
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Deficipe
Created by: logarithm
Pronunciation: dih-fI-sih-pi
Sentence: Cheng is tired of people asking for his mouth-watering roast duck recipe, so he created a deficipe instead to be given out to anyone, anytime without have to worry if it would affect his restaurant business.
Etymology: 1) Deficient: falling short of some prescribed norm. 2) Recipe: directions for making something.
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COMMENTS:
Cheng is tired of people asking for his mouth-watering roast duck recipe, so he created a deficipe instead to be given out to anyone, anytime without have to worry about his restaurant business. - logarithm, 2008-11-27: 01:34:00
Sheet I accidentally wrote the sentence in the comment box again! :-P - logarithm, 2008-11-27: 01:35:00
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Ingredinyet
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.
Omitstery
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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COMMENTS:
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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Roasttrickey
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: row-st-trick-ee
Sentence: For some reason, I just can't put my finger on it, my Christmas roast never turns out quite like my sister's. Do you suppose she has given me a roasttrickey. It's curious that mine is so FOWL, while hers is so tasty.
Etymology: roast turkey + trick (or trickery)
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COMMENTS:
Not sure - maybe that should have been roasttrickery - petaj, 2008-11-26: 02:41:00
You've come up with a verbotomy recipe for success! Pun fun at its very best! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-26: 03:11:00
Response to your comment ... I think you chose well ... I like roasttrikey best ... seems to make a better sounding pun. - silveryaspen, 2008-11-26: 03:14:00
Good one...will be remembering it tomorrow. - mweinmann, 2008-11-26: 09:35:00
I like tricky stuffing and tricky gravy, too. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:06:00
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Potlack
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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COMMENTS:
tasty - Nosila, 2009-12-16: 01:10:00
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Alamodeification
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: a/la/mode/i/fi/cay/shun
Sentence: Sally's piece de resistance at the end of a meal was her famous homemade ice cream. When guests begged for her recipe she always gave then the one with the alamodeification.
Etymology: a la mode + modification
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COMMENTS:
Perhaps you left 'Alamo' out of your etymology deliberately??? What a clever way to convey the failure of the alamodeification! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-26: 13:00:00
A tip of the hat to a MASTER verbotomist. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:11:00
Great word...I'dlike some vanilla right now myself! - Nosila, 2008-11-26: 20:43:00
Great word. Also brings to mind of events at SAN ANTONIO, Texas in 1836. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-27: 02:16:00
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Delessious
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: diˈlesh əs
Sentence: Millie made the best pies in the county. She had the blue ribbons to prove it. She never wrote down her recipes so when asked she would write them from memory. Somehow they never turned out the same. Hers were delicious, theirs delessious. Maybe the fact that she would "forget" some key ingredient, by accident of course, had something to do with it.
Etymology: delicious (highly pleasant to the taste) + less (a smaller amount of; not as much)
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-26: 11:21:00
Mmmm Pies are the zenith of dessert making. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:38:00
Good word...less is more! - Nosila, 2008-11-26: 20:38:00
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Nongrediant
Created by: bzav1
Pronunciation: non - greed- ee- ant
Sentence: Marybeth went to her grave knowing her nongredient would result in others producing a less satisfying stuffing.
Etymology: non - greed (it really is greed,isn't it?) ee - ant(the most democratic beast of the animal kingdom)
Reciproximate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ress-eh-PROX-uh-muht
Sentence: Lester takes great pride in the many dishes he has developed over the years and he jealously guards his recipes so when asked for them he always offers up a reciproximate, a recipe containing the main ingredients but which always leaves out 2 or 3 very important items.
Etymology: Blend of 'recipe' and 'approximate'
Chickenanery
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: chik/en/an/ury
Sentence: A devious friend played some serious chickenanery when she gave me a foolproof recipe for chicken divan. It turned out to be just divan.
Etymology: chicanery (deception) + chicken
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COMMENTS:
Very good! Wish I'd thought of it first. - Mustang, 2007-11-22: 07:40:00
Tremendous! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-22: 16:09:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James