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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.
Verboticisms
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Dishclasher
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: dish + clash + er
Sentence: Every night, we get into a full blown dishclasher when it comes time to scrub the pots and pans.
Etymology: It's like putting a clash into a dishwasher! Set it and forget it!
Dishcord
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: dish-kawrd
Sentence: The family decided to buy a dishwasher after the dishcord following supper.
Etymology: Dish and cord from discord.
Dishpandemic
Created by: FreeToys
Pronunciation: dish-pan-dem'-ick
Sentence: Once they were full, the importance of food was diminished and a dishpandemic broke out over who would clean up the mess.
Etymology: dishpan/pandemic
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COMMENTS:
Earplugs are good for dishpandemonium. - petaj, 2007-09-06: 08:18:00
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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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Washinguppityness
Created by: movingtomontana
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Can we please finish dinner without another episode of washinguppityness?
Etymology: Washing Up and Uppity
Scullerysquabble
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: skuhl-uh-ree-skwob-uhl
Sentence: Tonight's scullerysquabble went on until 3 am at which time Ned ended up with a fork stuck in his butt cheek.
Etymology: scullery (a small room or section of a pantry or kitchen in which cooking utensils are cleaned and stored) + squabble (argue)
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
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.
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
Dishcanughmanflap
Created by: teenatitude
Pronunciation: Dish-can-ugh-man-flap
Sentence: I Discanughmanflaped with my sister.
Etymology:
