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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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Savioracious
Created by: noztril
Pronunciation: seyv-yer ey-shuhs
Sentence: Stan's sorrow was lightened by his savioracious appetite.
Etymology: savior + voracious
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
Healmeal
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: heel-meel
Sentence: Hal healmealed his twinkies piecemeal deliberately wiping his tears with the plastic wrappers.
Etymology: heal + meal
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
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
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
Emotiomunch
Created by: sparkles510
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My poor brother did nothing but emotiomunch after his rejection.
Etymology:
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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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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Comments:
therapeating
doh. wrong box. too early.