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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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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.

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Caloriecrutch

Created by: chercherlalun

Pronunciation: calorie-crutch

Sentence: to get me through a tough spell I used Ben and Jerry's ice cream as a caloriecrutch

Etymology: from the latin word calorie meaning to stuff one's face.

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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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Misereat

whimsy

Created by: whimsy

Pronunciation: mi-zir-eat

Sentence: After he broke up with his girlfriend of three years, he had to misereat his way out of depression.

Etymology: misery + eat

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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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Ascrm

Created by: DGRosetti

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Sadstain

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sad stayn

Sentence: When Eric's girlfriend dumped him he ate bowls of cereal to sadstain him. He would become Cap'n Crunch, count his Lucky Charms and begin to feel more Special, K. This was how he got his Kix and said his Cheerios to old flames.

Etymology: Sad (unhappy, sorrowful) & Sustain (to provide nourishment)

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Eremosphago

zachclute

Created by: zachclute

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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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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!