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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.

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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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Dishmocracy

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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COMMENTS:

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

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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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Washinguppityness

Created by: movingtomontana

Pronunciation:

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

Etymology: Washing Up and Uppity

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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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Sinkirmish

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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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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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:

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