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dish verb. LME.
[from the noun.]
verb trans. & intrans. Put (food) into a dish ready for the table. Freq. foll. by out, up. LME.
E. Acton They [turnips] may be dished in the centre of..mutton cutlets.
verb trans.
a. Present attractively for acceptance. Usu. foll. by up, out. E17.
O. Welles Gossip columnists who must daily dish up a ration of rumours, jokes, slanders.
b. Give out carelessly or indiscriminately. slang. M20.
dish it out N. Amer. colloq. deal out punishment; fight hard.
a. verb intrans. Be or become dish-shaped or concave. M17.
b. verb trans. Make concave; spec. incline the spokes of (a wheel) towards the centre. Chiefly as dished pa. pple. M18.
verb trans. Defeat or swindle completely; ruin, spoil the chances of. slang. L17.
Listener Politicians love to dream of allying themselves with erstwhile enemies to dish their friends.
verb intrans. Of a horse: move its forefeet with a semicircular or scooping motion. M19.
dishing verbal noun (a) the action of the verb; (b) oblique positioning of the spokes of a wheel: L17.