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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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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.
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
Dishcanughmanflap
Created by: teenatitude
Pronunciation: Dish-can-ugh-man-flap
Sentence: I Discanughmanflaped with my sister.
Etymology:
Scullerysquabble
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: skuhl-uh-ree-skwob-uhl
Sentence: Tonight's scullerysquabble went on until 3 am at which time Ned ended up with a fork stuck in his butt cheek.
Etymology: scullery (a small room or section of a pantry or kitchen in which cooking utensils are cleaned and stored) + squabble (argue)
Dishcussion
Created by: Poeiden
Pronunciation: dish-cussion
Sentence: Dishcussions always took place at our neighbour's place, I was tempted to get a dishwasher for them to reduce the noise level.
Etymology: dish + discussion
Kitchencounterattack
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: kit/chen/cown/ter/attak
Sentence: A full fledged kitchencounterattack occurred last night in a small town near here with knives,forks and plates flying through open windows and injuring passersby. A dishwasher has been installed to prevent further outbursts
Etymology: kitchen counter + counter attack
Discutlery
Created by: younger
Pronunciation:
Sentence: A sink full of dirty dishes often provides enough fodder for a heated discutlery.
Etymology:
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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COMMENTS:
Earplugs are good for dishpandemonium. - petaj, 2007-09-06: 08:18:00
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Dishclasher
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: dish + clash + er
Sentence: Every night, we get into a full blown dishclasher when it comes time to scrub the pots and pans.
Etymology: It's like putting a clash into a dishwasher! Set it and forget it!
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)
