Dishing

dish (d

sh)

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.

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.

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.

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

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Blandisher
butter dish
chafing dish
coquille
deep-dish
dish
dish aerial
dish antenna
dish out
Dishful
do the dishes
entremets
Fondu
paella
pepper steak
petri dish
pheasant under glass
poi
ramekin

When he reached the back door Bill was already at the table and Rose, in a simple gown that brought out the appealing lines of her slim young body, was deftly helping his wife in the final dishing up.

Dust by Haldeman, Julius Mr. and Mrs. View in context

However, she persisted in dishing the dinner as well as cooking it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest: Mrs Wilfer first responding to her husband's cheerful 'For what we are about to receive--'with a sepulchral Amen, calculated to cast a damp upon the stoutest appetite.

Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context

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