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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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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
Dishcanughmanflap
Created by: teenatitude
Pronunciation: Dish-can-ugh-man-flap
Sentence: I Discanughmanflaped with my sister.
Etymology:
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
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
Chorefare
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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Dishagreement
Created by: graypenguin
Pronunciation: dish-uh-gree-ment
Sentence: The simple dishagreement turned into an all out war.
Etymology: dish + disagreement
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
Do they use their skates to cut their food? - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-06: 10:23:00
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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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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.
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)
