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'But they're not my dishes!'

DEFINITION: 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.

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Scotchfite

Created by: faithlessphil

Pronunciation: skotch-fyte

Sentence: Jimmy always ate quickly, trying to leave the table before the inevitable scotchfite broke out.

Etymology: Scotch from "Scotchbrite" (popular brand of dishwashing scrub pads) + fite (fight)

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Dishspute

Created by: Screamer

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Every night after dinner the family would erupt into a violent dishspute over the cleaning process

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

got my vote although I would have spelled it dishpute - FreeToys, 2007-09-06: 07:56:00

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Dishdishing

Created by: elcomputo

Pronunciation: Accent on the second dish.

Sentence: With all the dishdishing going on, they completely missed the Super Bowl.

Etymology: From the Indian word for cholera.

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Dishension

Created by: torpid

Pronunciation: /dish-'en(t)-sh&n/

Sentence: After every meal in the Murphy household, dishension ensued as none of the children could agree whose turn it was to do the dishes.

Etymology: dish + dissension

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Dishcanughmanflap

Created by: teenatitude

Pronunciation: Dish-can-ugh-man-flap

Sentence: I Discanughmanflaped with my sister.

Etymology:

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Dishturbance

Created by: earljw

Pronunciation: dish-TUR-bence

Sentence: I had to bang on the walls of my apartment because of the dishturbance next door, which happens every night at this time

Etymology: dish + disturbance

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Chorgument

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: chor-gyu-ment

Sentence: i arrived home from work to find the household deep in the throes of a chorgument

Etymology: chore, argument

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Choregument

mattbear

Created by: mattbear

Pronunciation: Chore-gew-ment

Sentence: I mentioned it was Billy's turn to do the dishes, and suddenly we had a choregument on our hands.

Etymology: Chore + argument = choregument

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COMMENTS:

I like the change to any chore, not just dishes! - skeeterzirra, 2007-09-06: 22:48:00

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Repapdisment

Created by: leeannhamers

Pronunciation: ree-pepe-dis-mint

Sentence: i forgot so i have a mojor case of repapdisent

Etymology: regret/ paperplate/ disapoint

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Washinguppityness

movingtomontana

Created by: movingtomontana

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Can we please finish dinner without another episode of washinguppityness?

Etymology: Washing Up and Uppity

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