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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
Fiscalcuffs
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: fiss-cul-cufs
Sentence: when the electricity bill arrived he knew they were in for another round of fiscalcuffs
Etymology: fiscal, fisticuffs
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COMMENTS:
sounds like a late night frisky treasury meeting - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-16: 16:20:00
Better than those darn French cuffs, that's for sure. - Osomatic, 2007-07-16: 23:09:00
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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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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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Coinradrage
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: coyne/rad/rage
Sentence: This whole Conrad Black trial is really just coinradrage.
Etymology: coin + rage + Conrad Black
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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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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Comanamy
Created by: Firrehawk99
Pronunciation: Come-on-a-me
Sentence: Oh that is just "comonamy"
Etymology:
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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Dispucashe
Created by: irminem
Pronunciation: dis-poo-cash
Sentence: The young married couple usually dispucashe about each other's spending habits.
Etymology: dispu- from the word "dispute" cashe-from the word "cash"
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COMMENTS:
Complain? - Firrehawk99, 2007-07-16: 22:47:00
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