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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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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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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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Comfeat

Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: cum-feet

Sentence: After Rachel dumped him Doug indulged in comfeating.

Etymology: contraction of "comfort" and "eat'

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Moodtrients

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mood tree ents

Sentence: Tony consumes moodtrients when dealing with emotional issues. His favourite moodtrition was found in bowls and bowls of cereal. Each mood was reflected in the cereal choice: Lucky Charms when he lost at poker; Cheerios when he was dumping someone;Froot Loops when he felt a little crazy;Alpha-Bits when he felt like spelling;Chex when his bounced;Quaker Oats when he felt like sowing his and Trix when he felt the need to visit the local ladies of the evening.

Etymology: Mood (a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;the prevailing psychological state) & Nutrients (any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy & build tissue;of or providing nourishment; food)

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COMMENTS:

Funny! - splendiction, 2009-09-29: 23:06:00

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Fareapy

mrskellyscl

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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Eatmotional

libertybelle

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: eet-moe-shun-al

Sentence: Something about the Grammys makes me very eatmotional. Why else would I sit there sobbing and polish off a whole bag of Oreos.

Etymology: Eat + Emotional

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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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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

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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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Emotifood

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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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!