Verboticism: Therapeating
DEFINITION: To eat your favorite food, not because you are hungry, but because you are feeling sad or lonely.
Voted For: Therapeating
Successfully added your vote For "Therapeating".
You still have one vote left...
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
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
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
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)
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
I think I would opt for the ice cream versions of drumsticks - nice word - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-05: 12:26:00
----------------------------
Healmeal
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: heel-meel
Sentence: Hal healmealed his twinkies piecemeal deliberately wiping his tears with the plastic wrappers.
Etymology: heal + meal
Emotiomunch
Created by: sparkles510
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My poor brother did nothing but emotiomunch after his rejection.
Etymology:
Bingemo
Created by: earljw
Pronunciation: BINGE-e-mo
Sentence: 'Harry, when Colleen dumped you, did you bingemo again?'
Etymology: binge + emo
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
Savioracious
Created by: noztril
Pronunciation: seyv-yer ey-shuhs
Sentence: Stan's sorrow was lightened by his savioracious appetite.
Etymology: savior + voracious
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".