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[dɪʃ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a shallow, flat-bottomed container for cooking or serving food
(e.g: an ovenproof dish)
- a shallow, concave receptacle, especially one intended to hold a particular substance
(e.g: the cats' water dish)
- a sexually attractive person
(e.g: I gather he's quite a dish)
- information which is not generally known or available
(e.g: if he has the real dish I wish he'd tell us)
- concavity of a spoked wheel resulting from a difference in spoke tension on each side and consequent sideways displacement of the rim in relation to the hub
Phrases:
- dish it out
- dish the dirt
Origin
:
Old English disc ‘plate, bowl’ (related to Dutch dis, German Tisch ‘table’), based on Latin discus (see discus)
[dɪʃ], (Verb)
Definitions:
- gossip or share information, especially information of an intimate or scandalous nature
(e.g: groups gather to brag about babies and dish about romances)
- utterly destroy, confound, or defeat
(e.g: the election interview dished Labour's chances)
- give concavity to (a wheel) by tensioning the spokes
(e.g: I don't think I dished the wheel correctly—there's a rubbing sound)
Phrases:
- dish it out
- dish the dirt
Origin
:
Old English disc ‘plate, bowl’ (related to Dutch dis, German Tisch ‘table’), based on Latin discus (see discus)
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