Verboticisms

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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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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Created by: mickey666

Pronunciation: dish-ko-mainia

Sentence: The meal was delicious and the family sat down to relax. A glare from the mother led to an outbreak of vitriolic dishcomania

Etymology: dish - obvious. co - involving people (my definition). mania - obsession

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Created by: Grant

Pronunciation: krud-mudg-yawn

Sentence: wash those dishes you crudmudgeon!

Etymology: a sticky situation involving old crud upon dishes.

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: dom-es-kuff-el

Sentence: The Gallagher family had severe domestic harmony issues. Such was their dishplacement behaviour, Mrs G called in a councellor. Witnessing a typical post dinner row, he concluded the family was a completely dysfunctional fork-up.

Etymology: domestic (of the home, household or family) & scuffle (a rough struggle or fight)

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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

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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

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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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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: dich kush yun

Sentence: "It's your turm, end of dishcussion, she choretled"

Etymology: discussion dish, cuss

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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'

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