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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.

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Cheereal

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: chear - ee - ul

Sentence: Whenever Douglas felt sad or lonely, he poured a bowl of cheereal and he always felt better. He did not really know whether he actually liked the stuff but it gave him the warm fuzzies.

Etymology: Cheer, Cereal

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COMMENTS:

I'll never look at Cheerios the same way again. No wonder we give it to 2 year olds. - mrskellyscl, 2009-09-29: 08:44:00

:) - galwaywegian, 2009-09-29: 10:01:00

Cheeryoh! - splendiction, 2009-09-29: 23:05:00

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Emotionoodles

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: imōshənoōdlz

Sentence: Lance uses food to compensate for failed relationships. His current comfort food? Oodles of Emotionoodles. This has proved to be better for the budget than his prior therapy food, sadfron rice.

Etymology: emotional (arousing or characterized by intense feeling) + noodles (a strip, ring, or tube of pasta or a similar dough, typically made with egg and usually eaten with a sauce or in a soup)

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Devourapy

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: dee + vour + a + pee

Sentence: I'm sad and lonely, so I think I will make about 5 pounds of mashed potatoes with lots of butter, and engage in some devourapy.

Etymology: devour + therapy

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Fareapy

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: fare-a-py

Sentence: Food endorphins have been recognized by many in the medical community as a legitimate form of fareapy. Sugar, salt and fat, either alone or in combination can help with stress relief. Those fareapy foods that have shown the greatest success treating the following conditions are: 1)RBSO (rejection by significant other) - Captain Crunch or another cereal with no nutritional value except sugar, 2)Employment Fatigue - chips or pretzels with french onion dip and/or nachos with cheese and salsa, 3)EBAS (empty bank account syndrome) - whatever your mother is cooking, 4)TTOTM (that time of the month) - any Ben and Jerrys ice cream and/or chocolate, 5)Road Rage - Twizzlers or another chewy form of candy, 6)POT Stress (parent of teenagers) just clean out the cupboard and eat whatever you find in the back. Fareapy should continue until the patient has finished calling all her or his friends, or slept for over 24 hours. Other treatment options may include 7)Cartoon Network Stimulus or 8)Musication (playing the same sappy song over and over and over) until the patient has has time to heal.

Etymology: Fare: food + therapy: treatment of an illness or physchological condition

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COMMENTS:

Life's not fare...good word! - Nosila, 2009-09-29: 19:47:00

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Fodderfigure

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: fod dur fig err

Sentence: at times of stress he turned to a fodderfigure, before turning into a blimp.

Etymology: father figure, fodder

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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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