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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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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
Therapeating
Created by: trioptimum
Pronunciation: ther-uh-PEE-ting
Sentence: Three bowls of macaroni cheese later, Clive still wasn't in the mood to stop therapeating.
Etymology: eating + therapy/therapeutic
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COMMENTS:
Love it :) - Lurky2000, 2007-09-05: 05:35:00
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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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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 !
Pityfull
Created by: FreeToys
Pronunciation: pi' - tee - full
Sentence: When she finished the first half gallon, she kept eating because although she was full, she would never be Pityfull
Etymology: pity/pitiful/full
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COMMENTS:
funny!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-05: 12:29:00
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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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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
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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Comments:
therapeating
doh. wrong box. too early.