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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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Dishullabaloo

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: dish-ulla-BA-loo

Sentence: There was nothing like a dish cloth for wiping the contented looks off the faces of Marita and Michael, Roxie and Bob's teenage children. For them that was a enough to start a dishowdown. Marita was potemical; Michael was clearly a misodishiac, and discussion always ended in a howling dishullabaloo with the dirty dishes remaining in the sink. Bob decided the solution was to buy a dishwasher rather than be one.

Etymology: Blend of dish & hullabaloo(uproar) Potemical (pot + polemical)

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COMMENTS:

excellent!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-06: 10:25:00

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Washinguppityness

Created by: movingtomontana

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Can we please finish dinner without another episode of washinguppityness?

Etymology: Washing Up and Uppity

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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

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Dishcord

Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: dish-kawrd

Sentence: The family decided to buy a dishwasher after the dishcord following supper.

Etymology: Dish and cord from discord.

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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

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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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