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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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Dishcanughmanflap
Created by: teenatitude
Pronunciation: Dish-can-ugh-man-flap
Sentence: I Discanughmanflaped with my sister.
Etymology:
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
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
Chorefare
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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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)
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!
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
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
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
Washinguppityness
Created by: movingtomontana
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Can we please finish dinner without another episode of washinguppityness?
Etymology: Washing Up and Uppity
