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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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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
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)
Snackalack
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: snack-a-lack
Sentence: Ye old lamente of the dumped: Oh fry, oh fry! my plover has left me for another. Needs must turn to snackalack as a balm for my troubled sole. Modern day translation: Bummer - my girlfriend taken off with my best mate. The only thing that will make me feel better is a roast chicken and some fish. Soul food.
Etymology: snack (tasty morsel) + alack (exclamation of sorrow, regret, or dismay)
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
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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Panosh
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I felt much better after panoshing on some bagels and lox.
Etymology: panache + nosh
Proznack
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: PROH-snak
Sentence: When his HMO denied his claim for anti-depressants, Terry turned to Proznacking. I hear he is up to 4 boxes of FiddleFaddle a day.
Etymology: Prozac (popular antidepressant) + snack
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COMMENTS:
nice - galwaywegian, 2007-03-12: 07:03:00
A vote for effort! :D - Discoveria, 2007-03-12: 19:19:00
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Compyfood
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: compyfood
Sentence: When i´m sad, loneley or blue, i always get better with compyfood
Etymology: compensation food
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like an advertisement. - petaj, 2007-03-13: 05:04:00
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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
Fareapy
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: fare-a-py
Sentence: Food endorphins have been recognized by many in the medical community as a legitimate form of fareapy. Sugar, salt and fat, either alone or in combination can help with stress relief. Those fareapy foods that have shown the greatest success treating the following conditions are: 1)RBSO (rejection by significant other) - Captain Crunch or another cereal with no nutritional value except sugar, 2)Employment Fatigue - chips or pretzels with french onion dip and/or nachos with cheese and salsa, 3)EBAS (empty bank account syndrome) - whatever your mother is cooking, 4)TTOTM (that time of the month) - any Ben and Jerrys ice cream and/or chocolate, 5)Road Rage - Twizzlers or another chewy form of candy, 6)POT Stress (parent of teenagers) just clean out the cupboard and eat whatever you find in the back. Fareapy should continue until the patient has finished calling all her or his friends, or slept for over 24 hours. Other treatment options may include 7)Cartoon Network Stimulus or 8)Musication (playing the same sappy song over and over and over) until the patient has has time to heal.
Etymology: Fare: food + therapy: treatment of an illness or physchological condition
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COMMENTS:
Life's not fare...good word! - Nosila, 2009-09-29: 19:47:00
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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!