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DEFINITION: n. A discussion among family members, or room mates, which often turns into a full-blown yelling match, and which seems to occur every night whenever it's time to do the dishes. v. To fight about the dishes.
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Dishharmony
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dishhärmənē
Sentence: Every one of the roommates loved to eat but afterwards there was often dishharmony. Some acted dishabled, others tried to dishappear while others just created dishcord. It wasn*t that people really forgot whose turn it was as much as they dishapproved of the way the the others left things in the kitchen. Just about everybody was ready to dishmember Fred when he boiled water and fixed his instant oatmeal in the the pot only to leave it on the stove.
Etymology: dish (a shallow, typically flat-bottomed container for cooking or serving food) + disharmony (lack of harmony or agreement)
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COMMENTS:
heh - galwaywegian, 2009-09-28: 10:12:00
Fred was dishlexic and couldn't read the iunstructions...good word. - Nosila, 2009-09-28: 16:38:00
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Dissues
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: dish-ooze
Sentence: the share house was great but there were always some dissues they couldn't resolve
Etymology: dish, issues
Inchoregruity
Created by: mana1066
Pronunciation: in'chowr'groo'i'tee
Sentence: As long as i dont have to do the dishes, i dont mind the tense anger-filled nightly inchoregruity
Etymology: incongruity+chore
Argudish
Created by: deannewby
Pronunciation: Arg-yoo-dish
Sentence: We had the biggest argudish in the history of the planet last night!
Etymology: A combination of the 2 key words: Argument and Dishes. The first condensed to Argu - to indicate the argument. The second condensed to Dish - to indicate the Argument Subject.
Dishcussion
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: dich kush yun
Sentence: "It's your turm, end of dishcussion, she choretled"
Etymology: discussion dish, cuss
Roomrow
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: room-rour
Sentence: Doug and his bros got into a massive roomrow with Rachel and her sussies
Etymology: room + row
Chorespute
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /chor-spyoot/
Sentence: The chorespute got out of hand.
Etymology: From chore + dispute
Chinapugalism
Created by: tammyjmassey
Pronunciation: chi-na-PU-jul-ism
Sentence: These are not my dishes, this is chinapugalism. This is not fair, I have been chinapugalisted.
Etymology: china - meaning dishes and pugalism from the Latin to fight pugal
Silverwars
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sill - vur - wores
Sentence: No one wanted to wash the utensils. And so began the silverwars.
Etymology: silverware, wars
Fudayellight
Created by: victy
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: fu-full...da-day...yel-yelling...ight-fight
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by petaj.
Thank you petaj! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by petaj. Thank you petaj. ~ James
Hey Verbotomists, Nosila has won the last week's prize -- a signed copy Jasper Fforde's "The Eyre Affair". Clearly, she using her communicaddiction to make the most of this karmadyoferrors. I'm looking forward to seeing how she fares in this week's verbal crockfight. ~ James