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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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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
Misereat
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
Sadmealing
Created by: EffingCharms
Pronunciation: sad-meal-ing
Sentence: After sadmealing, he forgot that he was upset at his former girlfriend.
Etymology: sad- [the feeling of unhappiness, being unhappy] -mealing [eating, process of eating, eating a meal.]
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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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
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)
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
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!