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'I ate ten bowls of cereal before I was satisfied.'

DEFINITION: To eat your favorite food, not because you are hungry, but because you are feeling sad or lonely.

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Pityfull

Created by: FreeToys

Pronunciation: pi' - tee - full

Sentence: When she finished the first half gallon, she kept eating because although she was full, she would never be Pityfull

Etymology: pity/pitiful/full

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COMMENTS:

funny!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-05: 12:29:00

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Missticate

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: miss + tih + cate

Sentence: I'm so lonely for my girlfriend that I've ended up missticating just about everything in the house.

Etymology: miss + masticate

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Bingitute

Created by: h4ste

Pronunciation: binge-it-tute

Sentence: She found her boyfriend cheating on her and she started bingituting. And now here i am finding nothing in the fridge.

Etymology: binge (as in binge eating) + substitute (as in food as a substitute) because in this case people eat to substitute food for "happy".

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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

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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).

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Doldrumstick

Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: dohl-druhm-stik

Sentence: He was a doldrumsticker for months after his girlfriend left him.

Etymology: doldrum - (sad, listless) stick - (from drumstick as in chicken leg)

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COMMENTS:

I think I would opt for the ice cream versions of drumsticks - nice word - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-05: 12:26:00

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Loneafeed

Created by: dclaxton

Pronunciation:

Sentence: My boyfriend and I broke up, so I ate loneafeed for three days.

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Gloomandize

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: gloo/muhn/deez

Sentence: He was so upset that his girlfriend dumped him that he pulled out his favourite cereal, Cheerios (how ironic), and had a major gloomandize session eating the whole box non-stop.

Etymology: gloom + gormandize (to eat greedily or ravenously)

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COMMENTS:

You hit the nail on the head, StevO. A great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-05: 22:47:00

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