Verboticism: Comforteating
DEFINITION: v. To eat your favorite food, not because you are hungry, but because you are feeling sad or lonely. n. Food which is eaten to satisfy emotional cravings.
Comforteating
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: com-fort-eet-ing
Sentence: It was a vicious circle, he comfortate to fell better, but that made him fat, so he comfortate to feel better...
Etymology: I think I got this one from "Paul McKenna will make you thin!"
Points: 524
Comments: Comforteating
Discoveria - 2007-03-12: 11:53:00
Comfort eating is what we would call this verboticism anyway. It's like that other one where there was already a phrase in use (Freudian slip).
tonya87 - 2007-03-12: 15:03:00
Can't you be more original then that? Lame
Discoveria - 2007-03-12: 19:19:00
tonya87, that wasn't very encouraging...I didn't mean to start anything.
allwise - 2007-03-13: 04:50:00
Well, I must say I used that one precisely because there already existed a definition. I think it should be evaluated next to new ones.