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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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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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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)
Cheereal
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: chear - ee - ul
Sentence: Whenever Douglas felt sad or lonely, he poured a bowl of cheereal and he always felt better. He did not really know whether he actually liked the stuff but it gave him the warm fuzzies.
Etymology: Cheer, Cereal
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COMMENTS:
I'll never look at Cheerios the same way again. No wonder we give it to 2 year olds. - mrskellyscl, 2009-09-29: 08:44:00
:) - galwaywegian, 2009-09-29: 10:01:00
Cheeryoh! - splendiction, 2009-09-29: 23:05:00
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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.
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
Chumpchomp
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: chump-chomp
Sentence: Charlie chumpchomped several helpings of chips after Charlotte dumped him for his best friend Churchill.
Etymology: Chump + chomp. Chump: loser. Chomp: eat; suggests excessive chewing/biting action.
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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Comformunch
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.
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.]
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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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!