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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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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
Deterrgent
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: dee tur jent
Sentence: the deterrgent always seemed to last much longer on lasagne night.
Etymology: deterrent, detergent
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COMMENTS:
Nice use of soap to your dishtinguish word - wordmeister, 2007-03-09: 08:07:00
I hope this deterrgent doesn't cause a dishruption of meals among your dishgruntled friends. - Stevenson0, 2007-03-09: 09:22:00
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Platteruckus
Created by: Shellbow
Pronunciation: plat-ter-ruh-cuss
Sentence: Aunt Sally started a huge platteruckus at Thanksgiving.
Etymology: Platter + ruckus
Reargurrence
Created by: tonya87
Pronunciation: Re-Are-Gyou-Err-Ants
Sentence: Why must was always have a reargurrance? Every night, Its just dishes!
Etymology:
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.
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)
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
Lanolinediscussion
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: lanoline discussion
Sentence: Getting dishes done, always ends up in a lanolinediscussion
Etymology: lanoline, as in good for your hands en discussion.
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