Dishing

dish  (dsh)

n.

1.

a. An open, generally shallow concave container for holding, cooking, or serving food.

b. dishes The containers and often the utensils used when eating: took out the dishes and silverware; washed the dishes.

c. A shallow concave container used for purposes other than eating: an evaporating dish.

2. The amount that a dish can hold.

3.

a. The food served or contained in a dish: a dish of ice cream.

b. A particular variety or preparation of food: Sushi is a Japanese dish.

4.

a. A depression similar to that in a shallow concave container for food.

b. The degree of concavity in such a depression.

5. Electronics A dish antenna.

6. Slang A good-looking person, especially an attractive woman.

7. Informal Idle talk; gossip: "plenty of dish about her tattoos, her plastic surgeries, and her ever-younger inamorati" (Louise Kennedy).

v. dished, dish·ing, dish·es

v.tr.

1. To serve (food) in or as if in a dish: dished up the stew.

2. To present: dished up an excellent entertainment.

3. To hollow out; make concave.

4. Informal To gossip about.

5. Chiefly British Slang To ruin, foil, or defeat.

v.intr. Informal

To talk idly, especially to gossip.

Phrasal Verb:

dish out

To dispense freely: likes to dish out advice.

Idiom:

dish it out Slang

To deal out criticism or abuse.

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[Middle English, from Old English disc, from Latin discus; see disk.]