Verboticism: Comforteating

'I just ate ten bowls of cereal'

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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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!"

Points: 524

Comments: Comforteating

Discoveria - 2007-03-12: 11:53:00
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).

tonya87 - 2007-03-12: 15:03:00
Can't you be more original then that? Lame

Discoveria - 2007-03-12: 19:19:00
tonya87, that wasn't very encouraging...I didn't mean to start anything.

allwise - 2007-03-13: 04:50:00
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.