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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.
Verboticisms
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Panosh
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I felt much better after panoshing on some bagels and lox.
Etymology: panache + nosh
Snackalack
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: snack-a-lack
Sentence: Ye old lamente of the dumped: Oh fry, oh fry! my plover has left me for another. Needs must turn to snackalack as a balm for my troubled sole. Modern day translation: Bummer - my girlfriend taken off with my best mate. The only thing that will make me feel better is a roast chicken and some fish. Soul food.
Etymology: snack (tasty morsel) + alack (exclamation of sorrow, regret, or dismay)
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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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!"
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COMMENTS:
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). - Discoveria, 2007-03-12: 11:53:00
Can't you be more original then that? Lame - tonya87, 2007-03-12: 15:03:00
tonya87, that wasn't very encouraging...I didn't mean to start anything. - Discoveria, 2007-03-12: 19:19:00
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. - allwise, 2007-03-13: 04:50:00
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Emotifood
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ee-mote-eh-food
Sentence: Whenever Karl and his girlfriend had a fight he'd engage in emotifood for days.
Etymology: emoti (emotion) + food
Devourapy
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: dee + vour + a + pee
Sentence: I'm sad and lonely, so I think I will make about 5 pounds of mashed potatoes with lots of butter, and engage in some devourapy.
Etymology: devour + therapy
Breakdread
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: brake-dred
Sentence: After his wife left him, his daughter ran off with the Hell's Angels, and his dog bit off his left thumb, Mark felt helpless and began to breakdread with a fervor. His drug of choice - consolation fries.
Etymology: break bread (to eat), dread
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
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!