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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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Breakdread
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
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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Cornsolation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: korn so lay shun
Sentence: Kernel Bran Dunne was so upset after his girlfriend Maizy dumped him that he went AWOL. At his home, he sought cornsolation in eating ten bowls of corn flakes. When the MP's found him, after he made a gluten of himself, they rushed him to the infirmary. Luckily, the medics were able to save him. Hominy was restored and another senseless cereal killing was avoided!
Etymology: Corn (ears of corn grown for human food; tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in American breakfast foods. & Consolation (the comfort/relief you feel when consoled in times of disappointment)
Emotiontake
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: e-mo-shin-take
Sentence: Whenever her in-laws call, she spends at least four days emotiontaking to get over the ordeal.
Etymology: from emotion + intake
Boremet
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: boor-mey
Sentence: Alan doesn't handle the mundane or monotonous well. When he is bored he eats and eats well. No bag of chips for him. When life seems tedious, it's caviar or truffles to make him feel better. Alan's friends refer to him as a boremet.
Etymology: bore (to weary by dullness, tedious repetition) + gourmet (connoisseur of fine food and drink; epicure)
Proznack
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: PROH-snak
Sentence: When his HMO denied his claim for anti-depressants, Terry turned to Proznacking. I hear he is up to 4 boxes of FiddleFaddle a day.
Etymology: Prozac (popular antidepressant) + snack
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COMMENTS:
nice - galwaywegian, 2007-03-12: 07:03:00
A vote for effort! :D - Discoveria, 2007-03-12: 19:19:00
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Crynge
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: crynj
Sentence: Whenever Donald was depressed, worried or feeling rejection he would crynge on his favorite cereal, Sugar Pops, until his mood improved.
Etymology: Blend of 'cry' and 'binge' ("v. to have a binge: to binge on junk food")
Therapeat
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: thair-ah-peet
Sentence: after she got home from her nieces wedding, she desperately needed to therapeat
Etymology: therapy, eat
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COMMENTS:
I think that I will start using this word in my dayly usage. - tonya87, 2007-03-12: 15:06:00
i'm on a diet, and i am dying to therapeat ! - mana1066, 2007-03-12: 22:06:00
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Emofoovings
Created by: victy
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: emo-emotional....foo-food....vings-cravings
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
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!