[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mIQ

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, October 08, 2012
> 
> Klingon word:   mIQ
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition:     fry, deep-fry

Used in canon:

  to'waQ mIQ vutwI' 
  The cook deep-fries the tendon. KGT

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.

KGT 94:  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.

Lawrence commented (HQ 6.2 p.20):

   Again this is not intended as a literal translation but
   rather a rough approximate to a similar cooking method
   occasionally used by Klingons (implying that not all
   Klingon food must be consumed raw).

Note the similarity to the verb {meQ} "burn", however do not confuse with the regional noun {mIQ} "forehead"!

PUN:
"Marc nodded, smiling infuriatingly, to confirm {mIQ} (deep fry) as in {mIQ}-Donald's french fries." (Qov at qep'a' loSDIch)


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons