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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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Comfortmunch
Created by: Jeaneai
Pronunciation: Comfirtmunch
Sentence: After Melinda lost her job, she comfortmunched for two days and gained a lot of weight subsequently.
Etymology: Comfort and Much
Forklorn
Created by: torpid
Pronunciation: fôrk'-lôrn
Sentence: After Susie kicked him to the curb, eric, forklorn, ate three slices of macaroni and cheese pizza.
Etymology: fork + forlorn
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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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
Comfortreat
Created by: elron
Pronunciation: cum-for-treet
Sentence: After I lost my job, my house burned down, my dog got hit by a truck, and my whole family was killed in a horrible industrial accident, I grabbed my Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey to comfortreat.
Etymology: comfort + treat
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).
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".
Blubbume
Created by: skepsis
Pronunciation: blub-ume
Sentence: Charlie would blubbume after every game he lost.
Etymology: blubber and consume
Savioracious
Created by: noztril
Pronunciation: seyv-yer ey-shuhs
Sentence: Stan's sorrow was lightened by his savioracious appetite.
Etymology: savior + voracious
Comments:
therapeating
doh. wrong box. too early.