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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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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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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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Cuisuccor

Created by: Pseudonym

Pronunciation: kwiz-uck-or

Sentence: "Don't knock prawns and ice cream; you have your cuisuccor, and I have mine."

Etymology: cuisine + succor

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COMMENTS:

Great word but might be too cerebral for a lot of voters. - elron, 2007-09-05: 09:42:00

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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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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

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Woebegorge

Created by: cmcesq

Pronunciation: Wo-bee-gorj

Sentence: Ever since we broke-up, all I do is sit around in my pajamas and woebegorge.

Etymology: Woebegone + gorge

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Munchsturbate

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: munch-stur-bate

Sentence: In order to keep his mind and body busy after the break-up, Bob would munchsturbate on high-fiber cereal - spending his time equally with the cereal bowl and toilet bowl.

Etymology: munch, masturbate

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COMMENTS:

Chheeriohmygods no doubt - galwaywegian, 2007-09-05: 07:45:00

more likely Cream of Wheat - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-05: 09:47:00

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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

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