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'I just ate ten bowls of cereal'

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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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

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Moodtrients

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mood tree ents

Sentence: Tony consumes moodtrients when dealing with emotional issues. His favourite moodtrition was found in bowls and bowls of cereal. Each mood was reflected in the cereal choice: Lucky Charms when he lost at poker; Cheerios when he was dumping someone;Froot Loops when he felt a little crazy;Alpha-Bits when he felt like spelling;Chex when his bounced;Quaker Oats when he felt like sowing his and Trix when he felt the need to visit the local ladies of the evening.

Etymology: Mood (a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;the prevailing psychological state) & Nutrients (any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy & build tissue;of or providing nourishment; food)

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Funny! - splendiction, 2009-09-29: 23:06:00

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Comfornance

Created by: aj3131

Pronunciation: Com-for-nance

Sentence: When I found out my fish died I ate my comfornance to make me feel better.

Etymology: Comfor(t)+ (suste)nance

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Comfeat

Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: cum-feet

Sentence: After Rachel dumped him Doug indulged in comfeating.

Etymology: contraction of "comfort" and "eat'

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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

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Eatmotional

libertybelle

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: eet-moe-shun-al

Sentence: Something about the Grammys makes me very eatmotional. Why else would I sit there sobbing and polish off a whole bag of Oreos.

Etymology: Eat + Emotional

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Misereat

whimsy

Created by: whimsy

Pronunciation: mi-zir-eat

Sentence: After he broke up with his girlfriend of three years, he had to misereat his way out of depression.

Etymology: misery + eat

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Fodderfigure

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: fod dur fig err

Sentence: at times of stress he turned to a fodderfigure, before turning into a blimp.

Etymology: father figure, fodder

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Porktrance

Created by: bettyann9

Pronunciation: pork-trance

Sentence: Those twelve bowls of ice cream I ate when Bob dumped me put me into a real porktrance.

Etymology: pork + trance

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Satisfation

CharlieB

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)

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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!