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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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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
Chorrage
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: chore-age
Sentence: The whole slovenly family suffered from severe clinical cases of chorrage, which made a clean house an immpossibility.
Etymology: chore (task or duty) + rage (anger, duh!) + chorrage!
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COMMENTS:
Is that brought on by housewark? - petaj, 2007-03-09: 05:04:00
Usually by an abundance of it! - Sed8ed, 2007-03-14: 04:52:00
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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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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.
Dishbat
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: dish-baet
Sentence: A yelling was heard from Kamran's apartment at night but soon I learned , it was a dishbat between his daughters.
Etymology: Dish means dish. battle means fight between individuals or animals.
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
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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Crockfights
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: krok fye tz
Sentence: It was the same every night after dinner. The Crockfights would begin. The 3 roommates would brawl over dish duty. They were armor-PLATED, they acted like MUGS, they DISHED it out to each other, the KNIVES were out and they would SINK to new lows. We were BOWLED over by the MAGNUMtude of their aggression. Just because they had to do the DISHES. They put the CUT in Cutlery, SPOON-fed each other venom and sPLATTERed each other with soap suds. There was PANdemonium until we told them to FORK off or we would send them on a slow VESSEL or a flying SAUCER to CHINA. Nothing is GRATER than love and WARE is the love???
Etymology: Crock (an earthen jar (made of baked clay) also (nonsense; foolish talk); Crockery (tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively) & Fights (an intense verbal dispute;the act of fighting; any contest or struggle) & Play on CockFights (a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs)
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COMMENTS:
Wow - nothing's measuringCUP to your sentence! Chef's Surprise for the 3 doommates! - splendiction, 2009-09-28: 21:50:00
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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