Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Klingon word: pID Part of speech: verb Definition: coat (food) with herbed mixture _______________________________________________ The herbed mixture is part of the verb; the food that's coated is the object. (KGT 89f): if [the meat] is fresh, the 'cook' may {pID} it, which involves coating it with herbed granulated cartilage (not necessarily from the same animal) mixed with some kind of {tIr} (grain) and doing very little else. The name of the granulated cartilage is {ngat}, which has also come to mean gunpowder. Meat prepared in this way is sometimes described as {wamwI' Ha'DIbaH} (hunter's meat), but the specific animal name is usually used instead of the word {Ha'DIbaH} (meat); for example, {wamwI' mIl'oD} (hunter's sabre bear). (KGT 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. PUN: "dip" backwards SEE ALSO: HaH marinate (v) qat wrap, encase (v) vel cover, coat, mask (v) jIy be umami, savory, earthy (v) pul be ground up (v) ngogh block, lump, brick (n) -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons