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'I just ate ten bowls of cereal'

DEFINITION: v. To eat your favorite food, not because you are hungry, but because you are feeling sad or lonely. n. Food which is eaten to satisfy emotional cravings.

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Panosh

swallowedbyafish

Created by: swallowedbyafish

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Sentence: I felt much better after panoshing on some bagels and lox.

Etymology: panache + nosh

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Satisfation

CharlieB

Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: sat-iss-fat-ion

Sentence: Nigel knew that evolution has led to the human body craving fat under times of stress. He also knew trying to fight his anxiety with carbohydrate consumption made him fat. But he couldn't resist the feeling of satisfation he got from half a packet of biscuits.

Etymology: satisfaction (feeling of wellbeing) + fat (consisting of fat; a corpulent or obese person)

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Emotifood

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: ee-mote-eh-food

Sentence: Whenever Karl and his girlfriend had a fight he'd engage in emotifood for days.

Etymology: emoti (emotion) + food

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Porktrance

Created by: bettyann9

Pronunciation: pork-trance

Sentence: Those twelve bowls of ice cream I ate when Bob dumped me put me into a real porktrance.

Etymology: pork + trance

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Soothey

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: soōðē

Sentence: Marcia wears her heart on her sleeve. This means that all too often she has that heart broken, or at least damaged. Whenever this happens she goes to her coping plan. Though she uses food to comfort herself, she works hard to keep it healthy. To make herself feel better, she will prepare a fruit soothey. She makes a point of using exotic fruits or fruits that are out of season to give herself a sense of importance. It usually just makes her feel broke.

Etymology: soothe (relieve or ease pain) + smoothie (a thick, smooth drink of fresh fruit puréed with milk, yogurt, or ice cream)

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COMMENTS:

Good word! - splendiction, 2009-09-29: 23:03:00

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Smorgasbored

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: smOr-giz-bOrd

Sentence: Selina sat in front of the food she just pulled from the fridge. She is smorgasbored and content to eat her blues away after being dumped by her boyfriend of nine years.

Etymology: smorgasbord, as in buffet/ bored, as in discontent or depressed

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Comfeed

Created by: catgrin

Pronunciation: kuhm-feed

Sentence: Beware girls! That comfeeding you do during the holidays can leave you with too-tight jeans!

Etymology: com=first syllable of "comfort" + feed

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Bingumfort

Created by: tonya87

Pronunciation: Bin-g-um-fort

Sentence: When ever I'm depressed I can't help but bingumfort

Etymology: Binge= to eat until stuffed, Comfort= a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain

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Eatherapy

Created by: Count

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Eatmotion

Created by: RainbowView

Pronunciation: it mo' shun

Sentence: Eatmotion occurs where one eats more to shun emotional turmoil, using food to expand the stomach in order to put pressure on the hole in their heart, in hope that it might stop the bleeding.

Etymology: eat + emotion, eat + more + shun, eat + motion

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Comments:

Osomatic - 2007-03-12: 13:34:00
Oooh! I was trying to think of something for Prozac, and nothing came to mind. Well done!