Verboticisms

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

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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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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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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: snack-a-lack

Sentence: Ye old lamente of the dumped: Oh fry, oh fry! my plover has left me for another. Needs must turn to snackalack as a balm for my troubled sole. Modern day translation: Bummer - my girlfriend taken off with my best mate. The only thing that will make me feel better is a roast chicken and some fish. Soul food.

Etymology: snack (tasty morsel) + alack (exclamation of sorrow, regret, or dismay)

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: ca/na/lone/lee

Sentence: When Sam is blue he scarfs down a huge dish of cannellonely.

Etymology: cannelloni + lonely

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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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Created by: Count

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: chump-chomp

Sentence: Charlie chumpchomped several helpings of chips after Charlotte dumped him for his best friend Churchill.

Etymology: Chump + chomp. Chump: loser. Chomp: eat; suggests excessive chewing/biting action.

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Created by: victy

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Etymology: emo-emotional....foo-food....vings-cravings

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: brake-dred

Sentence: After his wife left him, his daughter ran off with the Hell's Angels, and his dog bit off his left thumb, Mark felt helpless and began to breakdread with a fervor. His drug of choice - consolation fries.

Etymology: break bread (to eat), dread

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