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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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Comfeed
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: kuhm-feed
Sentence: Beware girls! That comfeeding you do during the holidays can leave you with too-tight jeans!
Etymology: com=first syllable of "comfort" + feed
Panosh
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I felt much better after panoshing on some bagels and lox.
Etymology: panache + nosh
Emotate
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
Breakdread
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: brake-dred
Sentence: After his wife left him, his daughter ran off with the Hell's Angels, and his dog bit off his left thumb, Mark felt helpless and began to breakdread with a fervor. His drug of choice - consolation fries.
Etymology: break bread (to eat), dread
Emotionoodles
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: imōshənoōdlz
Sentence: Lance uses food to compensate for failed relationships. His current comfort food? Oodles of Emotionoodles. This has proved to be better for the budget than his prior therapy food, sadfron rice.
Etymology: emotional (arousing or characterized by intense feeling) + noodles (a strip, ring, or tube of pasta or a similar dough, typically made with egg and usually eaten with a sauce or in a soup)
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)
Relationchip
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: reee lay shun tchippp
Sentence: women may come and women may go but you can rely on a good relationchip
Etymology: relationship chip (as in french fry)
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COMMENTS:
It's the only way to ketchup with your love life! - Nosila, 2009-09-29: 11:23:00
ha! - splendiction, 2009-09-29: 23:06:00
I agree! - mweinmann, 2009-09-30: 08:13:00
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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
Gloomulimia
Created by: mana1066
Pronunciation: gloom-a-lee-mee-a
Sentence: I have a bad case of doritos gloomilimia... or is it the munchies?
Etymology: gloom+bulimia
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!