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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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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)
Eatmotional
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
Bingumfort
Created by: tonya87
Pronunciation: Bin-g-um-fort
Sentence: When ever I'm depressed I can't help but bingumfort
Etymology: Binge= to eat until stuffed, Comfort= a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain
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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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
Panosh
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I felt much better after panoshing on some bagels and lox.
Etymology: panache + nosh
Consoleat
Created by: ozzymars
Pronunciation: kahn-so-leet
Sentence: After she dumped me, I couldn't help but to consoleat 12 boxes of Froot Loops.
Etymology: Console+ eat
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.
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
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")
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!