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'I ate ten bowls of cereal before I was satisfied.'

DEFINITION: To eat your favorite food, not because you are hungry, but because you are feeling sad or lonely.

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Depilge

Created by: leeannhamers

Pronunciation: dip-ill-ja

Sentence: i hate my body so i depilge

Etymology: depression/ bilge

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Pitygorge

Created by: shiftysquid

Pronunciation: Pi-tee-gorj

Sentence: When those bastards fired me, I just went into pitygorge mode with that jug of ice cream.

Etymology: Pity + gorge

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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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Veglahungrylafood

Created by: teenatitude

Pronunciation: veg-la-hungry-la-food

Sentence: I am a very "Veglahungrylafood",because I was sad.

Etymology:

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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

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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).

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Doldrumstick

Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: dohl-druhm-stik

Sentence: He was a doldrumsticker for months after his girlfriend left him.

Etymology: doldrum - (sad, listless) stick - (from drumstick as in chicken leg)

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COMMENTS:

I think I would opt for the ice cream versions of drumsticks - nice word - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-05: 12:26:00

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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

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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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