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DEFINITION: To eat your favorite food, not because you are hungry, but because you are feeling sad or lonely.
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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
Emotiomunch
Created by: sparkles510
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My poor brother did nothing but emotiomunch after his rejection.
Etymology:
Loneafeed
Created by: dclaxton
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My boyfriend and I broke up, so I ate loneafeed for three days.
Etymology:
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
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
Pitygorge
Created by: shiftysquid
Pronunciation: Pi-tee-gorj
Sentence: When those bastards fired me, I just went into pitygorge mode with that jug of ice cream.
Etymology: Pity + gorge
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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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".
Veglahungrylafood
Created by: teenatitude
Pronunciation: veg-la-hungry-la-food
Sentence: I am a very "Veglahungrylafood",because I was sad.
Etymology:
Comments:
therapeating
doh. wrong box. too early.