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'But they're not my dishes!'

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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Dishagreement

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: dish-ah-gree-ment

Sentence: What started out as a dishcussion, quickly escalated to a dishagreement, followed by a full-blown dawnnybrook.

Etymology: dish, disagreement

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COMMENTS:

During the kitchencounterattack, there was a dishagreement about the dishpute which caused much dishcord, but the dishsoapopera prevented further sinkosis. - Stevenson0, 2007-03-09: 09:33:00

Dishonesty is the root cause, but I dishapprove of dishipating responsibility. Otherwise everyone ends up dishappointed. - Alchemist, 2007-03-09: 09:58:00

what a dishaster - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-09: 10:34:00

Yes, quite dishturbing. I think this is what is referred to as a mental dishorder. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-09: 11:15:00

Mental dishorders need to be treated with pantrydepressants, but after that it's best to remain dishpassionate until the washing up has been complated. - Discoveria, 2007-03-09: 12:16:00

I sudspect that there is a dishproportionate amount of soapoforic information being disheminated here. - Alchemist, 2007-03-10: 12:39:00

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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

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Warshomania

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: warsh-o-MANE-e-uh

Sentence: No way I'm going home before last call tonight. Last night Monica and Greg descended into full-blown warshomania after we had lasagne.

Etymology: war + warsh + omania

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COMMENTS:

petaj Well lasagne is a special case, since it produces so many dirty pots and pans. - petaj, 2007-03-09: 02:02:00

It's true, lasagne is a well-known cause of warshomania. - wordmeister, 2007-03-09: 08:09:00

Well, I had a sudspicion that would happen. If only we could enjoy pasta without dishcord and dishonesty. - Alchemist, 2007-03-09: 08:29:00

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Dishpute

swallowedbyafish

Created by: swallowedbyafish

Pronunciation:

Sentence: There always seemed to be a big dishpute every night after dinner.

Etymology: dish + dispute

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COMMENTS:

Boy, howdy, can I ever relate to that! - Sed8ed, 2007-03-09: 05:00:00

I guess they were dishinclined to do the washing up... - Discoveria, 2007-03-09: 05:30:00

Great Word!! Between your 'dishpute' and my 'dishcord' and Purple's 'dishagreement' there's a lot of broken china. - Stevenson0, 2007-03-09: 09:16:00

China can be expensive to replace. Better to use everyday dinnerwar. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-09: 09:27:00

I dishcovered that even the best laid plans can lead to dishaster... - Alchemist, 2007-03-09: 10:02:00

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Bowlistic

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: bo lis tik

Sentence: When kids had to do the dishes, there was always a battle royal. Thye figured if they broke enough plates, their Mom wouldn't make them do them again. Wrong, she went bowlisitic when they tried that trick and cut off their privileges.

Etymology: Bowl (piece of china, a dish) & Ballistic (relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity, ie ballistic missile)

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Dishharmony

artr

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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Browl

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: pretty much like brawl

Sentence: The housemates were left dishtraught, and in Dishabillé after yet another browl. Crook Ray and cut Leroy (say them quickly) declared they would not be joining in the chorefare ever again.

Etymology: bowl (dish) + brawl (a noisy fight in a crowd)

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COMMENTS:

I really like chorefare! It's very versatile. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-09: 06:21:00

petaj Chorefare encompasses all kinds of domestic skirmishes - toilet terrorism, bathroom battles, laundry lambasting, etc. - petaj, 2007-03-09: 08:07:00

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Intrafamilialdishstrife

Created by: bettyann9

Pronunciation: in-trah-fa-MEE-lee-el-dish-stryfe

Sentence: To an outsider, the Jones' severe intrafamilialdishstrife appeared to be set off by Susan's uncontrollable fork-phobia. In reality, Jeff sneaked into Susan's room each night and taunted her with the spectre of dishes running away with spoons. Susan understood only too well what kind of agony can result when cutlery and china elope.

Etymology: intra=within a unit + familial=having to do with the family + dish=dish + strife=conflict

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Dishfunctional

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: dishfəngkshənl

Sentence: Momma loves cooking but hates doing the dishes. Billy read somewhere on the net that dishwashing detergent is bad for the environment so refuses to have anything to do with it. Dad can’t stand touching food scraps. This family is truly dishfunctional. They tried using paper plates once but nobody wants to take out the trash.

Etymology: dish (a shallow, typically flat-bottomed container for cooking or serving food) + dysfunctional (not operating normally or properly)

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Dishcussion

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: dish/cush/shun

Sentence: A heated dishcussion broke out every evening.

Etymology: dish + discussion

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COMMENTS:

I know it's lame but it's late in the game - porsche, 2007-03-09: 14:10:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-03-09: 00:15:01
Today's definition was suggested by petaj.
Thank you petaj! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-09-28: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by petaj. Thank you petaj. ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-09-28: 08:23:00
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