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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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Monetipathy
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Of course, they both knew that their argument had nothing to do with clothes but everything to do with monetipathy.
Etymology:
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
Debtonations
Created by: nonpossumus
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Their explosive arguments were debtonations hardly worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Etymology: Detonate
Fracash
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: fra/ca/sh
Sentence: They had a huge fracash that escalated to whipping coins at each other. For weeks after they sported the queen's face on their temples.
Etymology: fracas + cash
Moneyquarrel
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: moneykwarrel
Sentence: al this things are abouth moneyquarrel
Etymology: money and quarrel.
Altercashion
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: awl-ter-kash-shuhn
Sentence: Whenever Tony is feeling down he likes to buy himself something, usually something stupid or unnecessary. Last week's purchase of a batmobile replica brought on the expected altercashion with his wife. It's not that they didn't need a car, to her, it was a concern that she had no space to bring home the groceries.
Etymology: altercation (a heated or angry dispute; noisy argument or controversy) + cash (money in the form of coins or banknotes, especially that issued by a government)
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").
