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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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Dishtasteful

Created by: doctathunder

Pronunciation: DISH-TASTE-ful

Sentence: the playful argument soon became dishtasteful when devin insisted on only washing his three plates and no one else's.

Etymology: Dish + Tasteful

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Dishspute

Created by: Screamer

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Every night after dinner the family would erupt into a violent dishspute over the cleaning process

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

got my vote although I would have spelled it dishpute - FreeToys, 2007-09-06: 07:56:00

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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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Chorgument

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: chor-gyu-ment

Sentence: i arrived home from work to find the household deep in the throes of a chorgument

Etymology: chore, argument

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Repapdisment

Created by: leeannhamers

Pronunciation: ree-pepe-dis-mint

Sentence: i forgot so i have a mojor case of repapdisent

Etymology: regret/ paperplate/ disapoint

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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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Dishturbance

Created by: earljw

Pronunciation: dish-TUR-bence

Sentence: I had to bang on the walls of my apartment because of the dishturbance next door, which happens every night at this time

Etymology: dish + disturbance

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Dishteria

Created by: ericsimmons39

Pronunciation: dish-tear-e-yuh

Sentence: After dinner, my sister descended into the worst case of dishteria i've seen since thanksgiving 1994.

Etymology: Dish + Hysteria

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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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Dishpute

Created by: woofmaster

Pronunciation: dish-pyoot

Sentence: After our Thanksgiving dinner, there's usually a major dishpute.

Etymology: "dish" from "dish" "pute" from ... um. pute. you know.

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