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DEFINITION: To eat your favorite food, not because you are hungry, but because you are feeling sad or lonely.
Verboticisms
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Emonourishment
Created by: thebudman
Pronunciation: ee-mO-nur-ish-ment
Sentence: Even though I just ate, I couldn't help but engage in some good ol' emonourishment when I got home after my best friend told me he would be moving to Alaska.
Etymology: Emotional + Nourishment
Gloomestible
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: gloom-EST-ee-bul
Sentence: When tristorexic Roxie told Bob that she wanted a divorce, he became gloomestible and started eating like a sumo wrestler. His friends tried to help him so he wouldn't noshalone, but their time was taken up phoning for takeaway to grubslake this gobindreary melancolivore.
Etymology: Blending of Gloom, comestible (with the suffix meaning "given to"): "given to eating/eatibles while feeling sad & gloomly).
Blubbume
Created by: skepsis
Pronunciation: blub-ume
Sentence: Charlie would blubbume after every game he lost.
Etymology: blubber and consume
Suisideofbeefal
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: sue-i-side-of-BEEF-al
Sentence: Bob couldn't just comfort eat, he went the whole hog -- he was suisideofbeefal.
Etymology: suicidal + side of beef
Bingemo
Created by: earljw
Pronunciation: BINGE-e-mo
Sentence: 'Harry, when Colleen dumped you, did you bingemo again?'
Etymology: binge + emo
Pitygorge
Created by: shiftysquid
Pronunciation: Pi-tee-gorj
Sentence: When those bastards fired me, I just went into pitygorge mode with that jug of ice cream.
Etymology: Pity + gorge
Therapeating
Created by: trioptimum
Pronunciation: ther-uh-PEE-ting
Sentence: Three bowls of macaroni cheese later, Clive still wasn't in the mood to stop therapeating.
Etymology: eating + therapy/therapeutic
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COMMENTS:
Love it :) - Lurky2000, 2007-09-05: 05:35:00
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Abbamobgob
Created by: RachelPhillipson2007
Pronunciation: Ab-Har-Mob-Gob
Sentence: When my cat died, I had a serious case of Abbamobgob!
Etymology: Abba [illness or unhappiness] + mob [anger and frustration] + gob [constant stupid hunger] = Abbamobgob !
Glunch
Created by: recessivejean
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After Joe got fired, all he did for a week was sit around in his boxers and glunch on cereal and ramen.
Etymology: gl/unch from gloom + munch
Comments:
therapeating
doh. wrong box. too early.