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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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Panosh
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I felt much better after panoshing on some bagels and lox.
Etymology: panache + nosh
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)
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
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
Soothey
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: soōðē
Sentence: Marcia wears her heart on her sleeve. This means that all too often she has that heart broken, or at least damaged. Whenever this happens she goes to her coping plan. Though she uses food to comfort herself, she works hard to keep it healthy. To make herself feel better, she will prepare a fruit soothey. She makes a point of using exotic fruits or fruits that are out of season to give herself a sense of importance. It usually just makes her feel broke.
Etymology: soothe (relieve or ease pain) + smoothie (a thick, smooth drink of fresh fruit puréed with milk, yogurt, or ice cream)
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COMMENTS:
Good word! - splendiction, 2009-09-29: 23:03:00
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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
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
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
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
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!