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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".
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
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
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
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
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
Loneafeed
Created by: dclaxton
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My boyfriend and I broke up, so I ate loneafeed for three days.
Etymology:
Glunch
Created by: recessivejean
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After Joe got fired, all he did for a week was sit around in his boxers and glunch on cereal and ramen.
Etymology: gl/unch from gloom + munch
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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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).
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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Abbamobgob
Created by: RachelPhillipson2007
Pronunciation: Ab-Har-Mob-Gob
Sentence: When my cat died, I had a serious case of Abbamobgob!
Etymology: Abba [illness or unhappiness] + mob [anger and frustration] + gob [constant stupid hunger] = Abbamobgob !
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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Bingemo
Created by: earljw
Pronunciation: BINGE-e-mo
Sentence: 'Harry, when Colleen dumped you, did you bingemo again?'
Etymology: binge + emo
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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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
Depilge
Created by: leeannhamers
Pronunciation: dip-ill-ja
Sentence: i hate my body so i depilge
Etymology: depression/ bilge
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
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
Savioracious
Created by: noztril
Pronunciation: seyv-yer ey-shuhs
Sentence: Stan's sorrow was lightened by his savioracious appetite.
Etymology: savior + voracious
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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Healmeal
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: heel-meel
Sentence: Hal healmealed his twinkies piecemeal deliberately wiping his tears with the plastic wrappers.
Etymology: heal + meal
Tempterised
Created by: aabbko
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i feel tempterised by my girlfriend
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
send me ur feedback - aabbko, 2007-09-05: 14:25:00
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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
Emotiomunch
Created by: sparkles510
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My poor brother did nothing but emotiomunch after his rejection.
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
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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Veglahungrylafood
Created by: teenatitude
Pronunciation: veg-la-hungry-la-food
Sentence: I am a very "Veglahungrylafood",because I was sad.
Etymology:
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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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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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
Blubbume
Created by: skepsis
Pronunciation: blub-ume
Sentence: Charlie would blubbume after every game he lost.
Etymology: blubber and consume
Comments:
trioptimum - 2007-09-05: 04:49:00
therapeating
trioptimum - 2007-09-05: 04:50:00
doh. wrong box. too early.