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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.
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Eatmotion
Created by: RainbowView
Pronunciation: it mo' shun
Sentence: Eatmotion occurs where one eats more to shun emotional turmoil, using food to expand the stomach in order to put pressure on the hole in their heart, in hope that it might stop the bleeding.
Etymology: eat + emotion, eat + more + shun, eat + motion
Emotiontake
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: e-mo-shin-take
Sentence: Whenever her in-laws call, she spends at least four days emotiontaking to get over the ordeal.
Etymology: from emotion + intake
Pitygraze
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: pit-e-grayze
Sentence: Feeling lonely, Bob found comfort by pitygrazing on 2 boxes of Wheat Thin crackers.
Etymology: pity (to feel sorry for something) + graze (to feed on something)
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COMMENTS:
good one. - galwaywegian, 2007-03-12: 07:18:00
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Emotate
Created by: TerikaBrown
Pronunciation: e-mo-tate'
Sentence: I emotated chocolate when my boss called me incompetent at work.
Etymology: emo - sad and lonely music ate - past tense of eat
Sadstain
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sad stayn
Sentence: When Eric's girlfriend dumped him he ate bowls of cereal to sadstain him. He would become Cap'n Crunch, count his Lucky Charms and begin to feel more Special, K. This was how he got his Kix and said his Cheerios to old flames.
Etymology: Sad (unhappy, sorrowful) & Sustain (to provide nourishment)
Sadmealing
Created by: EffingCharms
Pronunciation: sad-meal-ing
Sentence: After sadmealing, he forgot that he was upset at his former girlfriend.
Etymology: sad- [the feeling of unhappiness, being unhappy] -mealing [eating, process of eating, eating a meal.]
Satisfation
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: sat-iss-fat-ion
Sentence: Nigel knew that evolution has led to the human body craving fat under times of stress. He also knew trying to fight his anxiety with carbohydrate consumption made him fat. But he couldn't resist the feeling of satisfation he got from half a packet of biscuits.
Etymology: satisfaction (feeling of wellbeing) + fat (consisting of fat; a corpulent or obese person)
Gorgleflop
Created by: tealismyname
Pronunciation: Gor-gul-flop
Sentence: I found a seagull and named it GORGLEFLOP!
Etymology: Random cool word my sister, PIper made up!!!!
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COMMENTS:
Best word ever! - tealismyname, 2007-03-12: 18:24:00
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Stuffensad
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: stuff-en-sad
Sentence: I'm so stuffensad, I ate a pint of icecream all by my self.
Etymology: stuff + sad
Securrytea
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: se/cur/ee/tee
Sentence: When Dan was upset he longed for a big mug of securrytea. The hot spicy liquid brought tears to his eyes and helped him through his crisis.
Etymology: security + curry + tea
Comments:
Osomatic - 2007-03-12: 13:34:00
Oooh! I was trying to think of something for Prozac, and nothing came to mind. Well done!