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DEFINITION: v. To have a big fight over nothing, that is really a fight about money. n. An argument about money
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Fiscfight
Created by: kaykee
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Ann and clive were embroyled in a domestic fiscfight
Etymology: fiscal (of or pertainting to money) + fight
Cashscrapped
Created by: Psychicsi
Pronunciation: kash-scrap-ed
Sentence: Anita cashscrapped with her husband at the mall. It wasnt because he hated the dress, he just hated the price.
Etymology: Cash (as in money) + scrap (as in to fight). Also from the phrase cash-strapped (to have little money)
Moneyquarrel
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: moneykwarrel
Sentence: al this things are abouth moneyquarrel
Etymology: money and quarrel.
Begbegbeg
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation: beg beg beg
Sentence: Stop begbegbegging me!
Etymology: beg all the time
Cashboxing
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: cash-bok-sing
Sentence: If cashboxing was an Olympic sport, Fiona would be a multiple gold-medallist
Etymology: cash + boxing
Counterfight
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /'kaun-t&r-"fIt/
Sentence: Ostensibly, the argument was over doing chores around the house, but the married couple was really counterfighting about the fact that he didn't have a job.
Etymology: From counterfeit + fight. Also usable as a noun ("a nasty counterfight") and as an adjective ("a counterfight argument").
Shortfallout
Created by: kyotonils
Pronunciation: (self-evident)
Sentence: We had another shortfallout last night when.
Etymology: shortfall+fallout
Pecunadillo
Created by: frippy
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Derived from the Latin word pecunia (money) and combined with peccadillo (a trivial hang up)
Cashbash
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: KASH-bash
Sentence: I only asked when dinner would be ready, but soon Susan and I were in a full-fledged cashbash.
Etymology: cash (money, currency) + bash (hit or smite)
Tendertiff
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ten-der-tiff
Sentence: They were very fond of each other, yet had frequent tendertiffs on seemingly inane problems, the root cause being money.
Etymology: tender (legal tender = money and also gentle) + tiff (petty quarrel)
