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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
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)
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
Repapdisment
Created by: leeannhamers
Pronunciation: ree-pepe-dis-mint
Sentence: i forgot so i have a mojor case of repapdisent
Etymology: regret/ paperplate/ disapoint
Yescussion
Created by: skepsis
Pronunciation: yes-kussion
Sentence: Mark died in the fight that our yescussion led to.
Etymology: yell and discussion
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
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
Washinguppityness
Created by: movingtomontana
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Can we please finish dinner without another episode of washinguppityness?
Etymology: Washing Up and Uppity
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.