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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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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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COMMENTS:
excellent!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-06: 10:25:00
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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
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
Choregument
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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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
Discutlery
Created by: younger
Pronunciation:
Sentence: A sink full of dirty dishes often provides enough fodder for a heated discutlery.
Etymology:
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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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
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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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.
