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DEFINITION: To have a big fight over nothing, that is really a fight about money.

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Cashclash

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: cash + clash

Sentence: Whenever Craig started to line up his pennies along the kitchen counter top making a long line all the way down and across the kitchen floor, Wanda knew she was in for one doozie of a cashclash with him.

Etymology: cash + clash

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Profidicament

Created by: loofarama

Pronunciation: pra-fi-dic-a-ment

Sentence: as soon as she started yelling I knew we were in a profidicament

Etymology: profit(money) + Perdicament

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Warrien

Created by: jesster

Pronunciation: war - ri - en

Sentence: The fight that started over whos turn it was to do the dishes quickly escalated into a full-blown warrien. She wanted a complete kitchen remodel, while he wanted a live-in swedish nanny/housekeeper. Of course, they didn't have the money for either.

Etymology: war + rien (French - nothing)

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Altercashion

Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: All-turr-kay-shen [or] All-turr-ka-shen

Sentence: It was hard to determine her statement "Can't you take better care of our dog!" was an altercashion. My first clue was that we didn't have a dog.

Etymology: Altercation (a fight) + cash (money)

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COMMENTS:

love the word! - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-16: 14:43:00

really? or is that just the start of a billibuster! =D - ziggy41, 2007-07-16: 16:05:00

hmm - I detect a bit of sarcasm - maybe make that the start of a ballibuster - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-16: 16:17:00

sounds more like an alterriercashion - galwaywegian, 2007-07-17: 04:17:00

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Fracashing

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Frack-a-shing

Sentence: Trudy, discovering that Eddie had secured a home equity loan and purchased a plasma television and a pool table for the game room, slid over the edge from disbelief to rage in about 7 seconds and began fracashing him for nearly two solid hours, during which time he could only offer his "pouty lip face" in a hollow, yet ineffective, attempt to persuade her to be reasonable.

Etymology: Fracas+cashing

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COMMENTS:

it looks like a pouty lip face but in reality he's watching his plasma televsion at the same time - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-16: 11:15:00

pouty lip = lipflop - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-16: 13:52:00

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Yellucre

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: yell + ook + er

Sentence: She was complaining about the laundry, but it was really just another yellucre.

Etymology: yell + lucre

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Pettyclash

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: pet tee klaa sssh

Sentence: They had another pettyclash over his friday night plans. He thought they should drive a mile or so downwind of the open air concert so they could enjoy the music without any of the pushing and shoving involved in attending the concert in the stadium. She answered by attempting to neuter him with the compilation cd he picked up in the bargain bin at the supermarket earlier.

Etymology: petty cash clash.

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COMMENTS:

hopefully they were on their way to a Clash concert - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-16: 11:17:00

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₣nought

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: fnort

Sentence: Frank fnought with Nora although she had spent only ₣5 on her trip to Paris.

Etymology: fought + nought + symbol for Franc

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Disagreenment

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: dis/a/green/ment

Sentence: Their only squabbles were disagreenments. He wanted to spend the money on one thing, her another.

Etymology: disagree + green

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COMMENTS:

great word. - galwaywegian, 2007-07-17: 04:15:00

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Billibuster

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: bill/i/bust/ur

Sentence: Jill was a seasoned billibuster. Her stand on spending escalated into fights involving whipping each other with five dollar bills. That was pretty ineffectual so they tossed coins instead.

Etymology: bill (as in dollar) + filibuster (opponent deliberately hindering the passage of a bill) + bustup (fight)

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COMMENTS:

Nothing says "What were you thinking?" like swinging a bag of nickels on a Friday night. - Kyoti, 2007-07-16: 13:23:00

[No one got hurt in the making of that sentence] great word - ziggy41, 2007-07-16: 16:03:00

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