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Klingon WOTD: mIQ (verb)
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This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, January 21, 2008.
Category: Food
Klingon word: mIQ
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deep-fry
Source: KGT (219 KE, 239 EK, 243 EK)
Swedish: steka, fritera
Additional Notes:
KGT p. 93. If heat is used as part of food preparation, the cook is most likely to {mIQ} ("deep-fry") the food. This involves first acquiring {tlhagh} ("animal fat") from any available source and then heating it up so that it boils (the general word for "boil is {pub}, but the verb used specifically to refer to the boiling of fat is {'Im} ["render"]). After it has been boiling for a while, the food to be fried is tossed in (sometimes having been coated in some kind of paste), and it stays there until it has soaked up as much of the {tlhagh} ("fat") as possible. A particularly popular dish, {tlhombuS}, requires that the cook coat a block of {tlhagh} with a mixture of {ngat} ("herbed granulated cartilage") and {tIr} ("grain") and then briefly immerse the block into the already boiling fat, just until the coating hardens.
KGT p. 93. Experienced cooks will {mIQ} ("fry") the {DIghna' por} ("[digna] leaf"), though this is risky, since if the leaf is heated for too long, it will wilt.
Homonyms:
mIQ (noun) - forehead (regional)
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