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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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Comformunch

erasmus

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.

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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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Emofoovings

Created by: victy

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology: emo-emotional....foo-food....vings-cravings

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Pitygraze

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: pit-e-grayze

Sentence: Feeling lonely, Bob found comfort by pitygrazing on 2 boxes of Wheat Thin crackers.

Etymology: pity (to feel sorry for something) + graze (to feed on something)

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COMMENTS:

good one. - galwaywegian, 2007-03-12: 07:18:00

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Securrytea

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: se/cur/ee/tee

Sentence: When Dan was upset he longed for a big mug of securrytea. The hot spicy liquid brought tears to his eyes and helped him through his crisis.

Etymology: security + curry + tea

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Emotate

TerikaBrown

Created by: TerikaBrown

Pronunciation: e-mo-tate'

Sentence: I emotated chocolate when my boss called me incompetent at work.

Etymology: emo - sad and lonely music ate - past tense of eat

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Gorgleflop

Created by: tealismyname

Pronunciation: Gor-gul-flop

Sentence: I found a seagull and named it GORGLEFLOP!

Etymology: Random cool word my sister, PIper made up!!!!

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COMMENTS:

Best word ever! - tealismyname, 2007-03-12: 18:24:00

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Boremet

artr

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)

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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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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")

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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!