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'But they're not my dishes!'

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.

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Bladesofgory

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: blades/of/gory

Sentence: When the meal is done, they usually start an all out bladesofgory verbal attack on each other trying to determine the dish responsibility for that day.

Etymology: 'Blades of Glory'(the movie) and the use of entrenching tools (knives) in the form of words, to verbally stab each other to inflict guilt trying to convince each other to do the dishes.

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COMMENTS:

petaj excellent imagery - petaj, 2007-09-06: 08:14:00

Do they use their skates to cut their food? - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-06: 10:23:00

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Dishcanughmanflap

Created by: teenatitude

Pronunciation: Dish-can-ugh-man-flap

Sentence: I Discanughmanflaped with my sister.

Etymology:

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Dishmocracy

MrDave2176

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: dish-MOCK-rah-see

Sentence: Generally rotation worked in Josh's house, but occasionally dishmocracy overruled the schedule which always threw things into a tailspin.

Etymology: Democracy (mob rule) combined with dishes.

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COMMENTS:

I think there's a little bit of mocking in there too - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-06: 11:46:00

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Dishpandemic

Created by: FreeToys

Pronunciation: dish-pan-dem'-ick

Sentence: Once they were full, the importance of food was diminished and a dishpandemic broke out over who would clean up the mess.

Etymology: dishpan/pandemic

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petaj Earplugs are good for dishpandemonium. - petaj, 2007-09-06: 08:18:00

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Yescussion

skepsis

Created by: skepsis

Pronunciation: yes-kussion

Sentence: Mark died in the fight that our yescussion led to.

Etymology: yell and discussion

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Scotchfite

Created by: faithlessphil

Pronunciation: skotch-fyte

Sentence: Jimmy always ate quickly, trying to leave the table before the inevitable scotchfite broke out.

Etymology: Scotch from "Scotchbrite" (popular brand of dishwashing scrub pads) + fite (fight)

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Dishension

Created by: torpid

Pronunciation: /dish-'en(t)-sh&n/

Sentence: After every meal in the Murphy household, dishension ensued as none of the children could agree whose turn it was to do the dishes.

Etymology: dish + dissension

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Washinguppityness

movingtomontana

Created by: movingtomontana

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Can we please finish dinner without another episode of washinguppityness?

Etymology: Washing Up and Uppity

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Dishdishing

Created by: elcomputo

Pronunciation: Accent on the second dish.

Sentence: With all the dishdishing going on, they completely missed the Super Bowl.

Etymology: From the Indian word for cholera.

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Chorefare

petaj

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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