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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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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!

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Discutlery

Created by: younger

Pronunciation:

Sentence: A sink full of dirty dishes often provides enough fodder for a heated discutlery.

Etymology:

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Yescussion

skepsis

Created by: skepsis

Pronunciation: yes-kussion

Sentence: Mark died in the fight that our yescussion led to.

Etymology: yell and discussion

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Dishtasteful

Created by: doctathunder

Pronunciation: DISH-TASTE-ful

Sentence: the playful argument soon became dishtasteful when devin insisted on only washing his three plates and no one else's.

Etymology: Dish + Tasteful

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Prodsomegastjuice

Created by: leomar

Pronunciation: prod-some-gast-juice

Sentence: hahaha!! prod=produce, some=more, gast=gastric, juice=acid hahahaha, learn more bout difective system, hehehe

Etymology: produce some grastric juice

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COMMENTS:

learn more bout difective system, hehehe digestive**** i mean - leomar, 2007-09-17: 09:35:00

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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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Dishagreement

Created by: graypenguin

Pronunciation: dish-uh-gree-ment

Sentence: The simple dishagreement turned into an all out war.

Etymology: dish + disagreement

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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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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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Chorefare

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: chore-fare

Sentence: It was with a sense of foreboding that Ma entered the kitchen. Her offspring were in siege chorefare. Kelly was wedged in the pantry while Bob and Miranda heckled and jeered, threatening her with chopsticks until she promised to empty the dishwasher.

Etymology: chore + fare (of the hearty type) + warfare

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COMMENTS:

I like it! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-06: 11:35:00

Great word with wider application. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-06: 18:11:00

Nice! Very Nice!! - skeeterzirra, 2007-09-06: 22:54:00

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Dishteria

Created by: ericsimmons39

Pronunciation: dish-tear-e-yuh

Sentence: After dinner, my sister descended into the worst case of dishteria i've seen since thanksgiving 1994.

Etymology: Dish + Hysteria

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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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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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Dishcussion

Created by: Poeiden

Pronunciation: dish-cussion

Sentence: Dishcussions always took place at our neighbour's place, I was tempted to get a dishwasher for them to reduce the noise level.

Etymology: dish + discussion

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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)

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Dishsent

Created by: rhowes

Pronunciation: dish-sent

Sentence: There was always a lot of dishsent in our home at supper wash up time.

Etymology: dish + dissent

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Dishpute

Created by: woofmaster

Pronunciation: dish-pyoot

Sentence: After our Thanksgiving dinner, there's usually a major dishpute.

Etymology: "dish" from "dish" "pute" from ... um. pute. you know.

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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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petaj Earplugs are good for dishpandemonium. - petaj, 2007-09-06: 08:18:00

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Kitchencounterattack

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: kit/chen/cown/ter/attak

Sentence: A full fledged kitchencounterattack occurred last night in a small town near here with knives,forks and plates flying through open windows and injuring passersby. A dishwasher has been installed to prevent further outbursts

Etymology: kitchen counter + counter attack

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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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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.

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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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Sinkirmish

trioptimum

Created by: trioptimum

Pronunciation: sin-KUR-mish

Sentence: Ian tried to be somewhere else each night at the time of the regular household sinkirmish.

Etymology: sink + skirmish

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Dishullabaloo

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: dish-ulla-BA-loo

Sentence: There was nothing like a dish cloth for wiping the contented looks off the faces of Marita and Michael, Roxie and Bob's teenage children. For them that was a enough to start a dishowdown. Marita was potemical; Michael was clearly a misodishiac, and discussion always ended in a howling dishullabaloo with the dirty dishes remaining in the sink. Bob decided the solution was to buy a dishwasher rather than be one.

Etymology: Blend of dish & hullabaloo(uproar) Potemical (pot + polemical)

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excellent!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-06: 10:25:00

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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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Dishmocracy

MrDave2176

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: dish-MOCK-rah-see

Sentence: Generally rotation worked in Josh's house, but occasionally dishmocracy overruled the schedule which always threw things into a tailspin.

Etymology: Democracy (mob rule) combined with dishes.

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I think there's a little bit of mocking in there too - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-06: 11:46:00

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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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Dishcanughmanflap

Created by: teenatitude

Pronunciation: Dish-can-ugh-man-flap

Sentence: I Discanughmanflaped with my sister.

Etymology:

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Bladesofgory

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: blades/of/gory

Sentence: When the meal is done, they usually start an all out bladesofgory verbal attack on each other trying to determine the dish responsibility for that day.

Etymology: 'Blades of Glory'(the movie) and the use of entrenching tools (knives) in the form of words, to verbally stab each other to inflict guilt trying to convince each other to do the dishes.

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COMMENTS:

petaj excellent imagery - petaj, 2007-09-06: 08:14:00

Do they use their skates to cut their food? - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-06: 10:23:00

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