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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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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".
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
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).
Blubbume
Created by: skepsis
Pronunciation: blub-ume
Sentence: Charlie would blubbume after every game he lost.
Etymology: blubber and consume
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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Emotiomunch
Created by: sparkles510
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My poor brother did nothing but emotiomunch after his rejection.
Etymology:
Indeprest
Created by: angus
Pronunciation: in-dee-PREST
Sentence: I was home alone with nothing to do on a Friday night so I indeprested an entire bag of doritos.
Etymology: ingest + depress
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
Mealancholy
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: meel-en-coll-ee
Sentence: he walked into his lonely flat and headed straight to the fridge for some mealancholy
Etymology: meal, melancholy
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COMMENTS:
excellent :) - Lurky2000, 2007-09-05: 05:36:00
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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
Comments:
therapeating
doh. wrong box. too early.