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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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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
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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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
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")
Snackalack
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)
Satisfation
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)
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.
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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Chumpchomp
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.
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!