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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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Dishpute
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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Dishcussion
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: dich kush yun
Sentence: "It's your turm, end of dishcussion, she choretled"
Etymology: discussion dish, cuss
Washamatter
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: wosh-er-matta
Sentence: 'What's the matter with you guys, you know it's not MY turn to do the dishes...' and so started yet another washamatter....
Etymology: washing up + matter - and the way all those discussions start....
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COMMENTS:
not bad! - galwaywegian, 2007-03-09: 05:22:00
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Silverwars
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sill - vur - wores
Sentence: No one wanted to wash the utensils. And so began the silverwars.
Etymology: silverware, wars
Dishcord
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: dish/cord
Sentence: After the meal is finished and we are feeling full and sleepy it is time for our daily dishcord over who is to clean and wash up the mess.
Etymology: dish + dishes + discord
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COMMENTS:
funny! - wordmeister, 2007-03-09: 00:36:00
That's clever. :-) - jedijawa, 2007-03-09: 00:43:00
tasty. - galwaywegian, 2007-03-09: 05:21:00
another great one - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-09: 10:30:00
I hadn't seen this when I added mine... yours is better! - Osomatic, 2007-03-09: 17:49:00
Excellent one! - BMott, 2007-03-09: 18:51:00
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Spoorn
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: Spoo'urn
Sentence:
Etymology: Spoon + Spurn (To reject/refuse)
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COMMENTS:
Read fast, this word can have some other, unpleasant meanings. - FreakyDeak, 2011-02-15: 20:28:00
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Disschored
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: diss chawrd
Sentence: The only positive thing that could be said about the evening disschored is that nobosy ever threw plates. They were too greasy to pick up.
Etymology: dischord diss chore
Chorespute
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /chor-spyoot/
Sentence: The chorespute got out of hand.
Etymology: From chore + dispute
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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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
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