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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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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
Foodgganut
Created by: Poeiden
Pronunciation: food-ger-not
Sentence: He was foodgganutic, eating his favourite breakfast bars when dumped by his girlfriend after a midnight movie.
Etymology: FOOD + juGGernauts + Nuts
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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Chompensate
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: chomp/en/sate
Sentence: Stu would often chompensate for his loneliness with a big bowl of granola.
Etymology: chomp + compensate + sate
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COMMENTS:
Very Good! Very Catchy! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-05: 09:43:00
nice - FreeToys, 2007-09-05: 12:16:00
Great! - purpleartichokes, 2007-09-05: 15:29:00
Missed your amaaazzzzzzzing words and comments the last month! You hit a home run with your first word back!! Great word!!! - Stevenson0, 2007-09-05: 17:35:00
Greatest comeback since Gen. MacArthur. A real bobbydazzler! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-05: 22:36:00
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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
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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Cheeremo
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: cheer-E-mo
Sentence: A quick trip to Taco Bell for a bag of cheeremo burritos made Jake feel better about losing his job.
Etymology: Cheerios always sounded like the perfect balm for the sads. So, mix that with EMO and you get Cheeremo
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
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
Comments:
therapeating
doh. wrong box. too early.