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microwavery

microwavery noun: cooking with a microwave oven.

Noun

microwavery (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Cooking with a microwave oven.
    • The kitchen was a masterpiece of modern microwavery, the brushed stainless steel of the implements and the shiny beige plastic counters unadorned and unabashed, poised to challenge McDonald's or Burger King […]1988, Bernard J. O'Keefe, Trapdoor, page 23
    • Eighteenth-century French gastronomes labored for days to perfect exquisite banquets; our Yank microwavery can produce equivalent gastric distress within seconds.1991, SPIN, volume 7, number 7

Origin of microwavery

From microwave + -ery.

Questions about microwavery

What does microwavery mean?
Microwavery means cooking with a microwave oven.
What part of speech is microwavery?
Microwavery is a noun.

Words near microwavery in the dictionary

  1. microwaved up
  2. microwaveguide
  3. microwaveguides
  4. microwaveless
  5. microwavelike
  6. microwavery
  7. microwaves
  8. microwaves up
  9. microwaving
  10. microwaving up
  11. microweapon

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