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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
Verboticisms
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Quiddle
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: kwid-l
Sentence: Yet again, they were having a quiddle - she refused to charge the take away to her card, as she had bought the wine. But he had paid for the taxi, and the loo roll. And so it went on.
Etymology: quid + quibble
Currentrip
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: cur - ren - trip
Sentence: Our latest currentrip started over my asking him if he would like a cup of coffee.
Etymology: curren - currency/current trip - like guilt trip or power trip
Economelee
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: ee-con-oh-mee-lee
Sentence: Bill and Jan would often economelee about their finances without actually talking about money.
Etymology: economics + melee
Cashfight
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: cash - fight
Sentence: She threw me out! We just had a cashfight.
Etymology: cash + fight
Currenseethe
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: cur-en-seethe
Sentence: Jim and Jane spent the night currenseething after he brought home a puppy with a spot shaped like a dollar sign.
Etymology: currency + seethe
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
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)
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:
Smuckight
Created by: Stump
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After the smuckfight we didn't talk for days - neither of us knew what to apologize for.
Etymology: smuck -for Smuckers from the Dane Cook bit and ight from fight
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)
