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dish
English
Etymology
From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English dis? (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”), from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, and disk.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?sh, IPA(key): /d??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
dish (plural dishes)
- A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Judges v. 25
- She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Judges v. 25
- The contents of such a vessel.
- (metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.
- (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
- (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- (slang) A sexually attractive person.
- 1993, Westwood Studios, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, Virgin Games:
- Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish!
- 1993, Westwood Studios, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, Virgin Games:
- The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
- A hollow place, as in a field.
- (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
- (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
- (slang) Gossip
Synonyms
- (vessel): plate
- (contents): dishful, plate, plateful
- (sexually attractive person): babe, fox
Derived terms
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: dis
Translations
Verb
dish (third-person singular simple present dishes, present participle dishing, simple past and past participle dished)
- (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
- (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
Derived terms
- dish out
- dish up
See also
- plate
Anagrams
- HIDs, HSDI, SHID, shid
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dishrag
English
Etymology
dish +? rag
Pronunciation
Noun
dishrag (plural dishrags)
- A piece of cloth used for washing dishes.
- (slang) An unclean person; used in similes.
- You're not going out like that! You look like a dishrag!
See also
- dishpan
Translations
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