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DEFINITION: To eat your favorite food, not because you are hungry, but because you are feeling sad or lonely.
Verboticisms
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Cheeremo
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: cheer-E-mo
Sentence: A quick trip to Taco Bell for a bag of cheeremo burritos made Jake feel better about losing his job.
Etymology: Cheerios always sounded like the perfect balm for the sads. So, mix that with EMO and you get Cheeremo
Abbamobgob
Created by: RachelPhillipson2007
Pronunciation: Ab-Har-Mob-Gob
Sentence: When my cat died, I had a serious case of Abbamobgob!
Etymology: Abba [illness or unhappiness] + mob [anger and frustration] + gob [constant stupid hunger] = Abbamobgob !
Veglahungrylafood
Created by: teenatitude
Pronunciation: veg-la-hungry-la-food
Sentence: I am a very "Veglahungrylafood",because I was sad.
Etymology:
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
Glunch
Created by: recessivejean
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After Joe got fired, all he did for a week was sit around in his boxers and glunch on cereal and ramen.
Etymology: gl/unch from gloom + munch
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".
Cuisuccor
Created by: Pseudonym
Pronunciation: kwiz-uck-or
Sentence: "Don't knock prawns and ice cream; you have your cuisuccor, and I have mine."
Etymology: cuisine + succor
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COMMENTS:
Great word but might be too cerebral for a lot of voters. - elron, 2007-09-05: 09:42:00
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Mealancholy
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: meel-en-coll-ee
Sentence: he walked into his lonely flat and headed straight to the fridge for some mealancholy
Etymology: meal, melancholy
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COMMENTS:
excellent :) - Lurky2000, 2007-09-05: 05:36:00
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Emonourishment
Created by: thebudman
Pronunciation: ee-mO-nur-ish-ment
Sentence: Even though I just ate, I couldn't help but engage in some good ol' emonourishment when I got home after my best friend told me he would be moving to Alaska.
Etymology: Emotional + Nourishment
Comments:
therapeating
doh. wrong box. too early.