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comfort foods

comfort foods is the plural of comfort food.

Meaning of comfort food

Noun

comfort food (countable and uncountable, plural comfort foods)

  1. Simple, comforting home-cooked-style food associated with one's formative years, often a staple of diners and other informal restaurants.
    • People like soup. It's what a psychologist would call a comfort food. Easy to eat, easy to digest, hearty soups are quick energy builders.1962 March 15, “Comfort foods for breakfast”, in Eugene Patterson, editor, The Atlanta Constitution, volume XCIV, number 229, Atlanta, Ga.: Ralph McGill, →OCLC, page 3-F, columns 1–2
  2. Food, often high in carbohydrates or sugar, consumed to feel comfort or alleviate stress rather than to receive nutrition.
    • After the relationship ended, she overindulged on comfort food every night.

Questions about comfort foods

What is comfort foods the plural of?
Comfort foods is the plural of comfort food.

Words near comfort foods in the dictionary

  1. comfort breaks
  2. Comfort Cove-Newstead
  3. comfort eating
  4. comfort fic
  5. comfort food
  6. comfort foods
  7. comfort girl
  8. comfort girls
  9. comfort letter
  10. comfort letters
  11. comfort noise

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