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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.
Verboticisms
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Comformunch
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: com for munch
Sentence: Terry had a bad case of conformunch. He'd eaten 7 boxes of biscuits since breakfast just to calm his nerves after being dumped.
Etymology: from comfort and munching.
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
Emockapy
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: emak-epi
Sentence: He emockapies himself with chines , whenever he is feeling sad.
Etymology: em from emotional , ock from shock, and apy from therapy.
Gloomulimia
Created by: mana1066
Pronunciation: gloom-a-lee-mee-a
Sentence: I have a bad case of doritos gloomilimia... or is it the munchies?
Etymology: gloom+bulimia
Emotate
Created by: TerikaBrown
Pronunciation: e-mo-tate'
Sentence: I emotated chocolate when my boss called me incompetent at work.
Etymology: emo - sad and lonely music ate - past tense of eat
Comforteating
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: com-fort-eet-ing
Sentence: It was a vicious circle, he comfortate to fell better, but that made him fat, so he comfortate to feel better...
Etymology: I think I got this one from "Paul McKenna will make you thin!"
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COMMENTS:
Comfort eating is what we would call this verboticism anyway. It's like that other one where there was already a phrase in use (Freudian slip). - Discoveria, 2007-03-12: 11:53:00
Can't you be more original then that? Lame - tonya87, 2007-03-12: 15:03:00
tonya87, that wasn't very encouraging...I didn't mean to start anything. - Discoveria, 2007-03-12: 19:19:00
Well, I must say I used that one precisely because there already existed a definition. I think it should be evaluated next to new ones. - allwise, 2007-03-13: 04:50:00
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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
Securrytea
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: se/cur/ee/tee
Sentence: When Dan was upset he longed for a big mug of securrytea. The hot spicy liquid brought tears to his eyes and helped him through his crisis.
Etymology: security + curry + tea
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
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!