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microwavery en · NOUN

Etymology

From microwave + -ery.

Meanings

  1. (informal, uncountable) 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: