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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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Emonourishment
Created by: thebudman
Pronunciation: ee-mO-nur-ish-ment
Sentence: Even though I just ate, I couldn't help but engage in some good ol' emonourishment when I got home after my best friend told me he would be moving to Alaska.
Etymology: Emotional + Nourishment
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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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".
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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Foodgganut
Created by: Poeiden
Pronunciation: food-ger-not
Sentence: He was foodgganutic, eating his favourite breakfast bars when dumped by his girlfriend after a midnight movie.
Etymology: FOOD + juGGernauts + Nuts
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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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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Healmeal
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: heel-meel
Sentence: Hal healmealed his twinkies piecemeal deliberately wiping his tears with the plastic wrappers.
Etymology: heal + meal
Munchsturbate
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: munch-stur-bate
Sentence: In order to keep his mind and body busy after the break-up, Bob would munchsturbate on high-fiber cereal - spending his time equally with the cereal bowl and toilet bowl.
Etymology: munch, masturbate
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COMMENTS:
Chheeriohmygods no doubt - galwaywegian, 2007-09-05: 07:45:00
more likely Cream of Wheat - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-05: 09:47:00
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therapeating
doh. wrong box. too early.