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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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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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Loneafeed
Created by: dclaxton
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My boyfriend and I broke up, so I ate loneafeed for three days.
Etymology:
Suisideofbeefal
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: sue-i-side-of-BEEF-al
Sentence: Bob couldn't just comfort eat, he went the whole hog -- he was suisideofbeefal.
Etymology: suicidal + side of beef
Gloomandize
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: gloo/muhn/deez
Sentence: He was so upset that his girlfriend dumped him that he pulled out his favourite cereal, Cheerios (how ironic), and had a major gloomandize session eating the whole box non-stop.
Etymology: gloom + gormandize (to eat greedily or ravenously)
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COMMENTS:
You hit the nail on the head, StevO. A great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-05: 22:47:00
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Comfortmunch
Created by: Jeaneai
Pronunciation: Comfirtmunch
Sentence: After Melinda lost her job, she comfortmunched for two days and gained a lot of weight subsequently.
Etymology: Comfort and Much
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 !
Chompensate
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: chomp/en/sate
Sentence: Stu would often chompensate for his loneliness with a big bowl of granola.
Etymology: chomp + compensate + sate
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COMMENTS:
Very Good! Very Catchy! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-05: 09:43:00
nice - FreeToys, 2007-09-05: 12:16:00
Great! - purpleartichokes, 2007-09-05: 15:29:00
Missed your amaaazzzzzzzing words and comments the last month! You hit a home run with your first word back!! Great word!!! - Stevenson0, 2007-09-05: 17:35:00
Greatest comeback since Gen. MacArthur. A real bobbydazzler! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-05: 22:36:00
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Gloomestible
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: gloom-EST-ee-bul
Sentence: When tristorexic Roxie told Bob that she wanted a divorce, he became gloomestible and started eating like a sumo wrestler. His friends tried to help him so he wouldn't noshalone, but their time was taken up phoning for takeaway to grubslake this gobindreary melancolivore.
Etymology: Blending of Gloom, comestible (with the suffix meaning "given to"): "given to eating/eatibles while feeling sad & gloomly).
Comments:
therapeating
doh. wrong box. too early.