Verboticism: Therapeating

'I ate ten bowls of cereal before I was satisfied.'

DEFINITION: To eat your favorite food, not because you are hungry, but because you are feeling sad or lonely.

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Suisideofbeefal

petaj

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

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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

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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

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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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Healmeal

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: heel-meel

Sentence: Hal healmealed his twinkies piecemeal deliberately wiping his tears with the plastic wrappers.

Etymology: heal + meal

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Emotiomunch

sparkles510

Created by: sparkles510

Pronunciation:

Sentence: My poor brother did nothing but emotiomunch after his rejection.

Etymology:

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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

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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

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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

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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".

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