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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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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

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Comformunch

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: com for munch

Sentence: Terry had a bad case of conformunch. He'd eaten 7 boxes of biscuits since breakfast just to calm his nerves after being dumped.

Etymology: from comfort and munching.

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Crynge

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: crynj

Sentence: Whenever Donald was depressed, worried or feeling rejection he would crynge on his favorite cereal, Sugar Pops, until his mood improved.

Etymology: Blend of 'cry' and 'binge' ("v. to have a binge: to binge on junk food")

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Gloomulimia

Created by: mana1066

Pronunciation: gloom-a-lee-mee-a

Sentence: I have a bad case of doritos gloomilimia... or is it the munchies?

Etymology: gloom+bulimia

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Boremet

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: boor-mey

Sentence: Alan doesn't handle the mundane or monotonous well. When he is bored he eats and eats well. No bag of chips for him. When life seems tedious, it's caviar or truffles to make him feel better. Alan's friends refer to him as a boremet.

Etymology: bore (to weary by dullness, tedious repetition) + gourmet (connoisseur of fine food and drink; epicure)

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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)

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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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COMMENTS:

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

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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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Ascrm

Created by: DGRosetti

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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!