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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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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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Sadisfy

Created by: lauramy

Pronunciation: sad-is-fy

Sentence: Food will sadisfy my empty stomach as well as my empty heart.

Etymology: sad + satisfy

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COMMENTS:

Very cute! - tonya87, 2007-03-12: 15:02:00

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Misereat

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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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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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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Boremet

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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Cheereal

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: chear - ee - ul

Sentence: Whenever Douglas felt sad or lonely, he poured a bowl of cheereal and he always felt better. He did not really know whether he actually liked the stuff but it gave him the warm fuzzies.

Etymology: Cheer, Cereal

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COMMENTS:

I'll never look at Cheerios the same way again. No wonder we give it to 2 year olds. - mrskellyscl, 2009-09-29: 08:44:00

:) - galwaywegian, 2009-09-29: 10:01:00

Cheeryoh! - splendiction, 2009-09-29: 23:05:00

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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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