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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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ducana
English
Noun
ducana (uncountable)
- An Antiguan dish made using sweet potatoes, white flour, sugar, vanilla essence, grated coconut and sometime raisins, blended and wrapped in large grape leaves or aluminum foil and boiled, often served with salted fish in tomato sauce.
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