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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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Dischored
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: diss + chore + d
Sentence: There's always some dischored in our house when the laundry hamper starts to overflow.
Etymology: discord + chore
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
Reargurrence
Created by: tonya87
Pronunciation: Re-Are-Gyou-Err-Ants
Sentence: Why must was always have a reargurrance? Every night, Its just dishes!
Etymology:
Silverwars
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sill - vur - wores
Sentence: No one wanted to wash the utensils. And so began the silverwars.
Etymology: silverware, wars
Chorewars
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: chor-warz
Sentence: The three siblings engaged in loud, raucous chorewars after every evening meal when it was time to do dishes, each of them denying loudly that it was their turn....again.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'chore' and 'wars'
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
Dishclasher
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Dish-clash-shur
Sentence: Yesterday's dishclasher started after Peter dumped his plate in the sink carelessly, breaking it on the mountain of dishes that already filled the sink.
Etymology: Dishwasher + clash
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COMMENTS:
Wow! that was nearly a dishaster! - Alchemist, 2007-03-09: 10:00:00
Yes, it's a good thing they got to the saucer of the problem: the family had become addicted to contemplate-ing after-dinner puns. - Discoveria, 2007-03-09: 12:19:00
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Dishagreement
Created by: roobee9
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Once again there was the same dishagreement over the kitchen chores.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
dishy word - Nosila, 2009-09-29: 01:14:00
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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