Verboticism: Dishracknophobia
DEFINITION: n. 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. v. To fight about the dishes.
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Dischored
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: diss + chore + d
Sentence: There's always some dischored in our house when the laundry hamper starts to overflow.
Etymology: discord + chore
Reargurrence
Created by: tonya87
Pronunciation: Re-Are-Gyou-Err-Ants
Sentence: Why must was always have a reargurrance? Every night, Its just dishes!
Etymology:
Deterrgent
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: dee tur jent
Sentence: the deterrgent always seemed to last much longer on lasagne night.
Etymology: deterrent, detergent
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COMMENTS:
Nice use of soap to your dishtinguish word - wordmeister, 2007-03-09: 08:07:00
I hope this deterrgent doesn't cause a dishruption of meals among your dishgruntled friends. - Stevenson0, 2007-03-09: 09:22:00
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Dishharmony
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dishhärmənē
Sentence: Every one of the roommates loved to eat but afterwards there was often dishharmony. Some acted dishabled, others tried to dishappear while others just created dishcord. It wasn*t that people really forgot whose turn it was as much as they dishapproved of the way the the others left things in the kitchen. Just about everybody was ready to dishmember Fred when he boiled water and fixed his instant oatmeal in the the pot only to leave it on the stove.
Etymology: dish (a shallow, typically flat-bottomed container for cooking or serving food) + disharmony (lack of harmony or agreement)
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COMMENTS:
heh - galwaywegian, 2009-09-28: 10:12:00
Fred was dishlexic and couldn't read the iunstructions...good word. - Nosila, 2009-09-28: 16:38:00
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Washwars
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: wash wars
Sentence: the neighbors turned to full blown washwars when it was after dinner clean up time. You could hear them 3 streets away.
Etymology: from washing and wars! how unique!
Dishcomania
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: dish-ko-mainia
Sentence: The meal was delicious and the family sat down to relax. A glare from the mother led to an outbreak of vitriolic dishcomania
Etymology: dish - obvious. co - involving people (my definition). mania - obsession
Chinapugalism
Created by: tammyjmassey
Pronunciation: chi-na-PU-jul-ism
Sentence: These are not my dishes, this is chinapugalism. This is not fair, I have been chinapugalisted.
Etymology: china - meaning dishes and pugalism from the Latin to fight pugal
Dishbat
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: dish-baet
Sentence: A yelling was heard from Kamran's apartment at night but soon I learned , it was a dishbat between his daughters.
Etymology: Dish means dish. battle means fight between individuals or animals.
Chorewars
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: chor-warz
Sentence: The three siblings engaged in loud, raucous chorewars after every evening meal when it was time to do dishes, each of them denying loudly that it was their turn....again.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'chore' and 'wars'
Chorrage
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: chore-age
Sentence: The whole slovenly family suffered from severe clinical cases of chorrage, which made a clean house an immpossibility.
Etymology: chore (task or duty) + rage (anger, duh!) + chorrage!
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COMMENTS:
Is that brought on by housewark? - petaj, 2007-03-09: 05:04:00
Usually by an abundance of it! - Sed8ed, 2007-03-14: 04:52:00
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