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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".
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
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
Missticate
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: miss + tih + cate
Sentence: I'm so lonely for my girlfriend that I've ended up missticating just about everything in the house.
Etymology: miss + masticate
Depilge
Created by: leeannhamers
Pronunciation: dip-ill-ja
Sentence: i hate my body so i depilge
Etymology: depression/ bilge
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
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).
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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Indeprest
Created by: angus
Pronunciation: in-dee-PREST
Sentence: I was home alone with nothing to do on a Friday night so I indeprested an entire bag of doritos.
Etymology: ingest + depress
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
Comments:
therapeating
doh. wrong box. too early.