dishn.
/dɪʃ/, U.S. /dɪʃ/ I. Senses relating to the item of crockery.
1. † c. transferred. Applied to an acorn-cup. Obsolete.† d. Phrases. to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish: to reproach or taunt him with it. to have a hand in the dish: to meddle, interfere. to have a foot in the dish (? like a pig in the trough): to gain a footing, have a share (cf. to have a finger in the pie). Obsolete.
a. A broad shallow vessel, with flat bottom, concave sides, and nearly level rim, made of earthenware, glass, metal, or wood, and used chiefly to hold food at meals. Now, on the one hand often restricted to those of oval, square, or irregular shape, as distinguished from the circular plate, and on the other extended to all open vessels used to contain food at table, as tureens, vegetable dishes, etc.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate
disha700
scuttlec1050
trencherc1308
plattera1325
paten?1340
esquele1371
skelec1400
plat1415
plate?c1450
skewel1567
trencher-plate1580
goggan1586
trench1602
table plate1669
mazarine1673
discus1680
wearing plate1683
silver plate1710
nappy1731
roundel1797
muffin1820
entrée dish1846
pinax1858
a700 Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.) 786 Patena, disc.
a800 Corpus Gloss. 852 Ferculum, disc.
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiv. 8 Sel me..in disc heafud iohannes.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxvi. 23 Se þe be-dypð on disce mid me hys hand.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 254 Breoke..disc.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 46/23 Ane Dischs of seluer he nam also.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 919 Ful wel kan ich dishes swilen.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 434 Diȝschis & coupis of siluer.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13159 Ask him..His heued to giue þe in a diss.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 32 In a dysshe þy gose þou close.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges v. 25 She..broughte forthe butter in a lordly diszshe.
1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell (1627) 270 The common saying is, the hog is neuer good but when he is in the dish.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 198 The Wooden dishes that are all over Persia.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 245. ⁋2 A small Cabinet..in which were..half a Dozen of Portugal Dishes.
1829 R. Southey Pilgrim to Compostella ii, in All for Love 167 They both slipt about in the gravy Before they got out of the dish.
1881 Wheatley & Delamotte Art Wk. Earthenware iv. 49 Palissy..took the greatest pains in the moulding of the fishes..which he placed upon these curious dishes.
b. A hollow vessel of wood or metal, used for drinking, and also esp. as a beggar's receptacle for alms; a cup; cf. alms dish n. at alms n. Compounds 1b, clack-dish n., clap-dish n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun]
chalicec825
napeOE
copc950
fullOE
cupc1000
canOE
shalec1075
scalec1230
maselin?a1300
mazer1311
richardine1352
dish1381
fiole1382
pece1383
phialc1384
gobletc1400
bowl-cup1420
chalice-cup1420
crusec1420
mazer-cup1434
goddard1439
stoup1452
bicker1459
cowl1476
tankard1485
stop1489
hanapa1513
skull1513
Maudlin cup1544
Magdalene cup?a1549
mazer bowl1562
skew1567
shell1577
godet1580
mazard1584
bousing-can1590
cushion1594
glove1609
rumkin1636
Maudlin pot1638
Pimlico1654
mazer dish1656
mug1664
tumbler1664
souce1688
streaker1694
ox-eye1703
false-cup1708
tankard-cup1745
poculum1846
phiale1867
tumbler-cup1900
stem-cup1915
sippy cup1986
c1394 J. Malverne Contn. Higden (Rolls) IX. App. 79 Quoddam jocale argenteum et deauratum formatum ad modum navis, vocatur discus eleemosynarum.]
1381 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 114 Je devise al priour du dit Couent..les mazers et le grant almesdych d'argent.
1488 Will of Villyam Pywale (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/8) f. 73 A new treen dyssh wt a pynte of ale therin.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 498/2 A begging with a dishe and a clapper.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iii. 149 Ile giue..My figurde goblets for a dish of wood. View more context for this quotation
1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. B2v I know him as well as the Begger knowes his dish.
1637 J. Milton Comus 14 Who would rob an Hermit of..His beades, or maple dish?
1781 W. Cowper Truth 80 Books, beads, and maple dish, his meagre stock.
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1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 172/1 Drie the little akorne dishes..and contunde them smalle.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > make accusation [phrase]
to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handc1300
to lay the blame on1393
to give the wrong to?1473
to lay in (his) neckc1515
to cast (any one) in the teeth1526
to cast (a thing) in one's teeth1526
to lay to (also cast in) a person's nose1526
to dash one in the teeth with (something)1530
call to or in coram1542
to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish1551
to throw (cast) a stone or stones (at)1568
to cast up1604
to nail to the barn door1894
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > act in another's business or intervene [verb (intransitive)] > interfere or meddle
entermeenec1449
intermit1456
intromit?a1475
intermeddle1477
intromeddle1524
to put (also have) an oar in every man's boat1542
to put (also stick, shove, etc.) one's oar in1542
to have a hand in the dish1551
pudder1624
mird?c1625
to mell or make with1634
potter1655
dabble1660
meddle1711
interfere1743
to bugger about1937
to bugger around1961
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [verb (transitive)] > reproach with
upbraida1250
undernimc1320
to lay to one's credit, reproachc1515
to cast (a thing) in one's teeth1526
to twit (a person) in the teeth1530
to hit (one) in the teeth with1535
to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish1551
to fling (anything) in one's teeth1587
to throw (thrust, fling, (etc.)) (something) in a person's face1597
to tit (a person) in the teeth1622
nose1625
exprobrate1630
puta1663
the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (intransitive)] > whatever is available
to have a foot in the dish1682
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Pvj When wee charge hym, with a like faute, and laye some greater matter in his dishe.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. I3 Hee casts the begger in my dish at euerie third sillable.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Aliboron A..busie-body; one that hath his hand in euery dish.
1615 J. Swetnam Arraignm. Women (1880) p. xviii Hir dowrie will be often cast in thy dish if shee doe bring wealth with her.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 270 We have already also a foot in their dish, for our Diabolonian friends are laid in their bosomes. View more context for this quotation
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 164. ⁋5 Some..have been so disingenuous, as to throw Maud the Milk-Maid into my Dish.
1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. 8 Under the bloody reign of Queen Mary, this was laid in his dish.
2. figurative and in extended use.1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 256 Heeres a dish I loue not, I cannot indure my Ladie Tongue. View more context for this quotationa1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vi. 126 He will to his Egyptian dish againe. View more context for this quotationa1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 269 I know, that a woman is a dish for the Gods, if the diuell dresse her not. View more context for this quotation1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 41 The theame of marriage was the best dish in all their entertainment.1929 D. Hammett Dain Curse (1930) xix. 217 He turned his half-wit's grin on me and said: ‘What a swell dish you are.’1938 ‘J. Curtis’ They drive by Night xxiii. 263 So you're Queenie, are you? And a nice little dish you are.1945 P. Cheyney I'll say she Does! v. 141 She's a swell dish—a lovely piece of frail that one.1955 J. B. Priestley & J. Hawkes Journey down Rainbow 84 The purple band..marched on to the field, accompanied by drum-majorettes—every one a dish, as they say.1958 A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs Eliot 68 That man I've been talking to is rather a dish, but I'm sure he's a bottom-pincher.1959 H. Hobson Mission House Murder ix. 65 I got pictures of this dame, she's a swell dish.
a. The food ready for eating served on or contained in a dish; a distinct article or variety of food. transferred and figurative: spec., an attractive person, esp. a woman (now only in informal use).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > [noun] > dish
meateOE
messc1300
servicec1450
dish1526
plate1577
plat1766
meat and potatoes1846
M & V1925
meat and two veg1960
the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive person
knocker1612
attractor1641
gracioso1653
attracter1654
charmer1677
irresistible1774
fascinator1836
stunner1847
high-stepper1852
looker1893
bonzer1897
hot tamale1897
tanger1914
dish1929
head-turner1935
cake1941
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Fi The moste hye dentyes or delicat disshes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 173 Let's carue him, as a Dish fit for the Gods. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 8 For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King. View more context for this quotation
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. ix. 78 Cambletes King of Lydia having eaten of his own wife, said he was sorry to have been ignorant so long of so good a dish.
1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xxiv. 296 To Beasts and Fowls is he Somewhere..become a dish.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 78. ⁋1 The palate is reconciled by degrees to dishes which at first disgusted it.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 321 The ladies..retired as soon as the dishes had been devoured.
1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 73 You will obtain a most delicate dish by boiling the cucumbers with brains.
b. by-dish: see by- comb. form 2c(a)(i). made dish: a fancy dish of various ingredients, depending for its success on the cook's skill. standing dish: one that appears each day or at every meal. (Also used figuratively) See also side dish n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > [noun] > dish > made dish
confection1393
bakea1425
manger1574
made dish1616
made dish1621
court-disha1656
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. i. 96 Artificiall made dishes, of which our Cooks affoord vs as great variety.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 146 Meer Quelquechoses, made dishes of no nourishing.
1876 W. H. Pollock in Contemp. Rev. June 56 The mysteries had ceased to be the standing dish of theatrical entertainment.
c. Slang phrase one's dish: something exactly suited to one's tastes, requirements, abilities, etc.; one's ‘cup of tea’. Originally U.S.
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the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > fact of being to one's taste > that which is to one's taste
mark1760
style1811
one's dish1918
1918 H. C. Witwer From Baseball to Boches 106 They [sc. grenades] ought to of been my dish, seein' what a notorious pitcher I was.
1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) v. 114 Did you lose your nerve And cloud your conscience because I wasn't Your dish really?
1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Feb. 42/2 Thus they are armed to predict the future, but this, I fear, is not my dish.
1957 P. G. Wodehouse Over Seventy iii. 42 My output was not everybody's dish.
3. As a term of quantity more or less indefinite.
a. As much or as many as will fill or make a dish when cooked.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > a plate, saucer, or dish
dishfulc1320
saucerfulc1440
dish1600
platterful1611
plateful?c1625
trencherful1660
porringerful1675
tureenful1817
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ii. 129 I haue heere a dish of Doues that I would bestow vppon your worship. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 5 The prince once set a dish of apple Iohns before him. View more context for this quotation
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ix. 175 The Boat returned with a good dish of Fish.
1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab xiv. 254 Trotter..secured a good dish of fish in the pools.
b. A dishful, a bowlful or cupful.
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1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 31 Such a dish of skim milke. View more context for this quotation
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 171 He had taken off two or three Dishes of Aquavitæ.
1679 Trials of Green, Berry 65 I will go to the Coffee-house, and drink a Dish of Coffee.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 57. ¶4 She scalded her Fingers, and spilt a Dish of Tea upon her Petticoat.
1795 A. Hughes Jemima II. 10 Having finished his dish of chocolate.
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI xxx. 76 He sate him pensive o'er a dish of tea.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 688 More than one seat in Parliament..had been bought and sold over a dish of coffee at Garraway's.
1862 Sat. Rev. 13 526/2 The cook anticipates many a cosy dish of tea with friends.
c. figurative.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. 9 Thou full dish of foole. View more context for this quotation
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xix. 175 My dish of chastitie. View more context for this quotation
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. viii. 34 Roger..had a Dish of Chat with her.
1753 T. Gray Let. 24 July in Corr. (1971) I. 379 To entertain you with a dish of very choice erudition.
1820 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 183 This new dish of Continental troubles.
1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 183 For the sake of a dish of gossip.
4. transferred.
a. A shallow concave vessel or receptacle of any kind. See also chafing-dish n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > shallow vessel or dish
dish1633
1633 G. Herbert Justice in Temple ii The dishes of thy ballance.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant xxxii. 126 The Ropes which were round the Capstan pulled it out of its Dish.
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 305/2 Evaporating dishes are employed.
b. A microwave reflector or aerial with a concave surface.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > aerial
radiator1897
aerial wire1899
aerial1902
antenna1902
loop antenna1906
loop aerial1913
twin aerial1913
frame aerial1916
loop1922
beam aerial1926
cage aerial1926
Adcock1928
dipole1929
V antenna1932
beam antenna1935
rig1935
horn1936
whip1940
whip aerial1941
whip antenna1943
polyrod1945
unipole1945
slot aerial1946
slot antenna1946
dish1948
quad1951
V aerial1961
dish aerial1962
rectenna1964
omni-antenna1966
monopole1974
1948 Gloss. Terms Waveguide Technique (B.S.I.) 11 Dish, a reflector the surface of which is part of a sphere or of a paraboloid of revolution.
1956 Electronic Engin. 28 539 The actual radiator consists of a 30ft diameter dish.
1957 Ann. Reg. 1956 333 The great radio-telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, with its 250-ft. reflecting ‘dish’.
1960 Daily Tel. 22 Feb. 14 The radar antenna shown above..has an 84-ft. ‘dish’.
1965 New Scientist 8 July 87/1 The new telescope employs three 60-ft parabaloidal [sic] reflectors or ‘dishes’.
1967 New Scientist 18 May 390/3 The present metal aerial dish weighs 100 lb; but there are plans to use a coated dish of carbon fibre material.
5. A dish-like concavity; e.g. on one side of a wheel (see quots.); a depression in a field, etc. More commonly, the condition of wheels having such concavity; the amount of such concavity.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > concavity in wheel
dish1810
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > concavity in wheel > amount of
whauve1869
dish1888
1810 T. Williamson Agric. Mech. 95 The dish given to wheels.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 372 Wheels are commonly made with what is called a dish, that is, the spokes are set at an angle into the nave or centre-piece; so that..the wheel appears dished or hollow.
1837 W. B. Adams Eng. Pleasure Carriages 98 Some wheels..get more dish than others.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1154 The third or front wheel may be found without dish.
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Dish..a hollow in a field.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XI. 311/1 The dish is considerable, amounting to 2 inches in the 5-foot wheel.
1891 Fur, Fin & Feather Mar. 167 The left hind wheel of his wagon is out of dish.
6. As a specific quantity in various industries:† a. An obsolete measure for corn. Cf. toll-dish n.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring volume > measuring vessels > vessel of standard capacity > bowl for measuring grain or corn
toll-hoopc1270
corn-dish1419
reasonc1450
multure dish?c1475
toll-dishc1580
dish1774
1419 Liber Albus (Rolls) i. 243 Quilibet capitalis mensurarius habeat unum quarterium, et bussellum, et stryk, et corndisshe.
1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 85 I will provide them mills for their foreign grain at the rate of the twenty first dish.
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b. Tin-mining. A gallon of ore ready for the smelter.
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c. Lead-mining. A rectangular box used for measuring the lead ore; by Act 14 and 15 Vict. c. 94 §3 fixed to contain fifteen pints of water; brazen-dish: see brazen adj. 4.
d. Also, the proportion of tin or lead ore paid as royalty to the mine landlord, etc.
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1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student l. f. clxii Yf a man take a tynne werke and gyue the lorde the tenthe dysshe.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 13v They measure their blacke Tynne, by the..Dish..which containeth..a gallon.
1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 90 The deputy Barre Masters, measured the oare with a brasen dish.
1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 53 But first the finder his two meers must free With oar there found, for the Barghmaster's fee Which is one dish for one meer of the ground.
1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 75 The thirteenth dish of oar within their mine, To th' Lord for Lot, they pay at measuring time.
?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 7 A Horse load..is nine dishes.. weighing about Four hundred and Fifty pound.
1681 T. Houghton Compl. Miner (E.D.S.) Dish, a trough made of wood, about 28 inches long, 4 inches deep, and six inches wide; by which all miners measure their ore.
1884 R. Hunt Brit. Mining 83 Mining for tin and copper was carried on, in 1770..Permission was..obtained from the lord of the soil, and an acknowledgment ‘dish’, or ‘dues’—was paid to him..commonly one-sixth, one-seventh, one-eighth, or even to one-twelfth, or less.
e. Diamond-mining and Gold-mining: see quots.
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1890 Goldfields of Victoria 17 I have obtained good dish prospects after crudely crushing up the quartz.
1893 Sc. Leader 19 May 7 About 120 ‘dishes’ go to a ‘load’..it is an astonishing ‘prospect’ (4 carats [of diamonds] obtained from 6 dishes).
II. [immediately from Latin discus.] † 7. A quoit; quoit-playing. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > throwing weight, shot, or ball > weight, shot, or discus
stonec1300
dishc1384
discus1581
disc1665
putting stone1716
weight1865
shot1881
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. iv. 14 They hastiden for to be maad felawis of wrastlyng..and of oost, or cumpanye of dishe, or pleyinge with ledun dishe [a1425 L.V. in ocupacions of a disch, ether pleiyng with a ledun disch; L. disci; Coverdale, to put at ye stone; 1611 the game of Discus].
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dyshe caster, or who that throweth a dyshe, discobolus.
III. [ < dish v.1]
8. slang. The act of ‘dishing’: see dish v.1 7.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > prevailing or mastering > overcoming or overwhelming > defeating completely
profligationc1475
scrubbing1813
smashing1821
dish1891
tanking1905
socking1978
1891 W. Harcourt Speech 30 July The last reliance of the Tory in an extremity is a policy of ‘dish’ as it is called.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive.
dish-rack n.
b. objective, as dish-bearer, dish-designer, dish-turner, dish-washing.
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > server of food > as servant
sewera1387
trenchepaina1400
dish-bearerc1440
serverc1450
waiter1528
disher1598
trencher-groom1607
trencher-squire1628
trencher-waiter1639
under-sewer1669
suffragi1863
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 122/1 Dysshe berer at mete, discoferus.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy v A long procession of dish-bearers.
1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket Prol. 5 A dish-designer, and most amorous Of..Gascon wine.
1889 R. T. Cooke Steadfast i. 16 The song of the kettle as it piped away on the shortened hook, where it kept hot for dish washing.
1891 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 336 Dish-washing..includes all that is required, with regard to cleanliness, in amateur photography.
1894 H. Speight Nidderdale & Garden of Nidd 384 Whitesmiths, dish-turners.
1897 Outing 30 124/2 A dish-washing machine.
1963 Which? 6 Feb. 46/1 Dishwashing machines are comparatively rare.
c. Consisting, or having the form, of a dish; dish-shaped.
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?c1823 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 2nd Tour Scotl. in Jrnls. (1941) II. 344 Porters in white hats with dish-crowns close to the head.
1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 72 The hollow or dish keel is a variety of the flat keel system.
1893 Kennel Gaz. Aug. 214 Jess III is spoilt by her dish face.
1960 Times 2 Jan. 9/1 The working springer tends to be smaller, lower slung, often with a dish face.
1962 Listener 19 July 112/1 A dish aerial at Goonhilly Down.
1968 Times 20 Dec. 6/8 A special dish telescope 20ft. in diameter.
C2. Special combinations. Also dishcloth n., dish-clout n., dish-wash n., dishwater n., etc. † dish-bink n. northern dialect Obsolete a rest for dishes, a dresser, a plate-rack. † dish-caster n. Obsolete (see 7 above). † dish-headed adj. Obsolete an epithet of monks. † dish-meat n. Obsolete food cooked in a dish, as e.g. a pie.† dish-mustard n. Obsolete Turner's name for Thlaspi arvense.
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dish-bench n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > plate-rack
dish-bink1483
dish-board?1523
dish-cratch?16..
dish-cradle1691
dish-bench-
1483 Cath. Angl. 100/2 Dische benke, scutellarium.
1535 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 12 A cobbord with a dys~bynk.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Dish-bink, a kitchen rack for the plates.
dish-board n. = dish-bench n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > plate-rack
dish-bink1483
dish-board?1523
dish-cratch?16..
dish-cradle1691
dish-bench-
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlviiiv Swepe thy house dresse vp thy disshborde.
1562 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 152 My counter and dishebourd.
dish-cover n. a cover of ware or metal placed over hot food.
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1831 Society 1 144 The dish-covers are slowly raised.
dish-cradle n. (dialect; in Nares dish-catch) a plate-rack.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > plate-rack
dish-bink1483
dish-board?1523
dish-cratch?16..
dish-cradle1691
dish-bench-
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 133 Dish-Cradle or Credle, a wooden Utensil for wooden Dishes.
dish-cratch n. = dish-cradle n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > plate-rack
dish-bink1483
dish-board?1523
dish-cratch?16..
dish-cradle1691
dish-bench-
?16.. Comical Dial. betw. 2 Country Lovers My dish-c [r] atch, cupboards, boards, and bed.
dish-cross n. (see quots. 19081, 1931 for dish-ring n.).
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > other tableware or items for table
pewter1426
warnera1552
nef1567
pewtery1645
hollow-ware1682
equipage1683
flatware1686
napkin ring1686
pewterware1738
egg cup1773
dish-rim1774
butter cooler1784
dish-cross1785
argyll1789
toast-rack1801
centrepiece1836
table centrepiece1850
silverware1862
doily1864
table centre1865
potato ring1888
egg-cosy1894
sandwich flag1907
cheese board1916
Lazy Susan1917
1785 Daily Universal Reg. 1 Jan. 3/2 Dish crosses with lamps, 14 oz. to 20 oz. each.
1908 B. Wyllie Sheffield Plate 75 ‘Dish-crosses’ or ‘spiders’..served two purposes: either to keep a hot dish from marking the polished tables..or to support a spiritlamp which kept the contents of the dish above hot.
1908 H. N. Veitch Sheffield Plate 136 These dish-crosses..are suitable for both round and oval dishes.
dish-rim n. = dish-cross n.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > other tableware or items for table
pewter1426
warnera1552
nef1567
pewtery1645
hollow-ware1682
equipage1683
flatware1686
napkin ring1686
pewterware1738
egg cup1773
dish-rim1774
butter cooler1784
dish-cross1785
argyll1789
toast-rack1801
centrepiece1836
table centrepiece1850
silverware1862
doily1864
table centre1865
potato ring1888
egg-cosy1894
sandwich flag1907
cheese board1916
Lazy Susan1917
1774 in B. Wyllie Sheffield Plate (1908) 71 Dish-rims.
1908 B. Wyllie Sheffield Plate pl. lxxi Revolving Dish Stand for round or oval dish. Possibly this is what was meant by a ‘dish-rim’.
dish-ring n. = dish-cross n.
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1931 E. Wenham Domest. Silver v. 75 [Dish-crosses] represent to the English what the misunderstood dish-rings mean to the Irish, namely, a stand on which to place a hot dish to prevent it from marking the table.
dish-crowned adj. having a crown shaped like a dish.
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1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood vii. 13 Dish-crown'd Hat.
dish-faced adj. (of dogs and horses) ‘having the nose higher at the tip than the stop’ (Stables Friend Dog vii. 50); (dialect of persons) having a round flattish face like a reversed plate.
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1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. i. 12 The Dish-faced or Roman-Nosed Horse.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Dish-faced, flat-faced; applied both to man and beast.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Dish-faced, hollow-faced.
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1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 489 b Those dish~headed dranes of that shavelyng and Cowled rowte.
dish-heater n. ‘a warming closet attached to a stove or exposed in front of a fire to heat dishes’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.).
dish-lift n. = dumb-waiter n. 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > utensils for serving > food-lift
rising cupboard1833
waiter1833
dumb-waiter1847
dish-lift1859
food lift1888
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 81 With every modern convenience and improvement: with bath-rooms..dish-lifts, [etc.]
1920 Contemp. Rev. June 890 He walked to the dish-lift and listened intently.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun]
pie1301
tart?a1400
dish-meata1513
coulibiac1898
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 122/1 Dysshe mete, discibarium.]
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxiii. sig. i.i Delycate dysshe meetes, were put out of her presence.
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B2 Let me alone, for my actiuity, at the dish meat.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 316/1 All sorts of Bread and Dishmeats are taken out of the Oven.
dish-monger n. one who deals in, or has much to do with, dishes (of food).
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1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 8 Dish-mongers..running into excesse of riot.
dish-mop n. originally U.S. a small mop used for washing dishes, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > [noun] > equipment for washing or drying table utensils
water-clothOE
neck towel1493
dish-clout1530
mop1683
bottlebrush1685
rinse1738
tea-cloth1770
dishcloth1828
dish-rag1839
tea-towel1863
dish-towel1869
dish-pan1872
lappie1892
dish-mop1897
washing-up cloth1973
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 98/1 This dish mop is made of cotton and is securely fastened to handle.
1913 E. H. Porter Pollyanna v. 47 Nancy, hurrying with her belated work, jabbed her dish-mop into the milk pitcher.
1955 E. Coxhead Figure in Mist viii. 229 She picked up a dish-mop and began to scour a..saucepan.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > other crucifers
Raphanusa1398
watercress?a1450
boor's mustard1548
dish-mustard1548
rocket1548
treacle mustard1548
heal-dog1551
Thlaspi1562
candy mustard1597
Grecian mustard1597
Italian rocket1597
knave's mustard1597
madwort1597
mithridate mustard1597
moonwort1597
mithridate1605
wall-rocket1611
broom-wort1614
candytuft1629
draba1629
Turkey cress1633
rock cress1650
shepherd's cress1713
pennycress1714
alyssum1731
arabis1756
tower mustard1760
faverel1770
molewort1770
stinkweed1793
wall cabbage1796
wall-cress1796
awl-wort1797
sickle-pod1846
Kerguelen cabbage1847
sun cress1848
sand rocket1854
wall mustard1904
buckler-mustard-
tower-cress-
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.vj Named in englishe dyshmustard, or triacle Mustard..because the seede is lyke mustard seede in colour and in tast, and the vessel that conteyneth the seede is lyke a disshe.
dish-pan n. U.S. a pan in which dishes, etc., are washed.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > [noun] > equipment for washing or drying table utensils
water-clothOE
neck towel1493
dish-clout1530
mop1683
bottlebrush1685
rinse1738
tea-cloth1770
dishcloth1828
dish-rag1839
tea-towel1863
dish-towel1869
dish-pan1872
lappie1892
dish-mop1897
washing-up cloth1973
1872 Newton Kansan 5 Sept. 4/5 Put your corn, while hot, in a dish-pan.
1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 176 Ash began to beat on the bottom of the dish-pan with a heavy spoon to call them to breakfast.
dish-pan hands n. an inflamed or sore condition of the hands caused by washing-up or by the use of cleaning materials in housework.
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1944 B. Hutchison Hollow Men xiii. 187 ‘And me’—she chuckled at this—‘sunk without trace in domesticity, teaching school, dish-pan hands [etc.].’
dish-plate n. Mineralogy (see quot. 1892).
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1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Dish-plates, in mining, plates or rails dished to receive the fore wheels of a tub, to faciliate the teeming.
dish-rag n. = dishcloth n.; chiefly U.S. also transferred, the dishcloth gourd.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used to scrub or scour > [noun] > loofah plant or fruit
vegetable sponge1837
dish-rag1839
sponge gourd1861
towel-gourd1872
hechima1883
loofah-tree1887
dishcloth gourd1900
wash-gourd-
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > [noun] > equipment for washing or drying table utensils
water-clothOE
neck towel1493
dish-clout1530
mop1683
bottlebrush1685
rinse1738
tea-cloth1770
dishcloth1828
dish-rag1839
tea-towel1863
dish-towel1869
dish-pan1872
lappie1892
dish-mop1897
washing-up cloth1973
1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 329/2 When he landed he lay there as limber as a dish-rag.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It iv. 44 It really pretended to be tea, but there was too much dish-rag and sand, and old bacon-rind in it.
1890 Cent. Dict. at Sponge-gourd Vegetable sponge or dish-rag.
1904 N.Y. Tribune 22 May A novel enterprise, that of raising dishrags, is being exploited by a number of Southern California horticulturists.
1939 D. Thomas Map of Love 21 The horrid Woe drip from the dish-rag hands.
dish-towel n. = dish-rag n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > [noun] > equipment for washing or drying table utensils
water-clothOE
neck towel1493
dish-clout1530
mop1683
bottlebrush1685
rinse1738
tea-cloth1770
dishcloth1828
dish-rag1839
tea-towel1863
dish-towel1869
dish-pan1872
lappie1892
dish-mop1897
washing-up cloth1973
1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks 275 Aunt Lois..found her dish-towel freezing in her hand.
1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 365/2 Mr. Ayer removed her dish-towel from its nail.
dish-spring n. a spring shaped like a dish.
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 34 CC is a dish-spring, secured in its place by the pin.
dish-trough n. = 6c.
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1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. A2, Barmaster [The Barmaster] looks after..keeping the Dishtrough.
Draft additions 1997
spec. one used as a receiving aerial for the domestic reception of satellite television; a satellite dish.
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1980 New Scientist 28 Feb. 645/1 Even a dish of just under a metre in diameter, as proposed for domestic receiving installations, has such a tight beam that the dish must be aimed at the satellite to an accuracy of within half a degree.
1982 New Scientist 2 Sept. 633/1 The satellite will be one of the first in the world to offer TV to viewers equipped with the necessary ‘dishes’.
Draft additions 1997
dish aerial n. = sense 4b above.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > aerial
radiator1897
aerial wire1899
aerial1902
antenna1902
loop antenna1906
loop aerial1913
twin aerial1913
frame aerial1916
loop1922
beam aerial1926
cage aerial1926
Adcock1928
dipole1929
V antenna1932
beam antenna1935
rig1935
horn1936
whip1940
whip aerial1941
whip antenna1943
polyrod1945
unipole1945
slot aerial1946
slot antenna1946
dish1948
quad1951
V aerial1961
dish aerial1962
rectenna1964
omni-antenna1966
monopole1974
1962 Listener 19 July 112/1 A dish aerial at Goonhilly Down.
1982 New Scientist 24 June 840/2 Many proponents of satellite broadcasting put about the story that, in the future, people will have satellite dish aerials in their gardens, balanced on their roofs or attached to a wall.
1991 Computing 10 Jan. 76/1 A dirty great 100 ft. radio mast, replete with large dish aerials, on top of Trundle Hill.
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dishv.1
/dɪʃ/, U.S. /dɪʃ/ 1. transitive. To put (food) into a dish, and set it ready for a meal. Also with up (†forth, out).
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [verb (transitive)]
servec1275
spenda1375
serve1381
to serve forth1381
ministerc1400
messa1425
sewc1440
to serve ina1450
to serve upc1475
asservec1500
dish1587
appose1593
to usher in1613
send1662
to hand round1692
to serve away1709
hand1851
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 81 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II The thin fare that heere is disht before him.
1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario B iij Dish the meat, and lay this sauce vpon it.
a1651 N. Culverwell Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) i. xvii. 192 They dish out Ambrosia for them.
c1685 in Duke of Buckingham's Wks. (1705) II. 48 She..neatly dish'd it up with Egg-sauce.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper vii. 165 When your Dinner or Supper is dished.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. i. 11 Jemima, dish up!
1879 G. A. Sala Paris herself Again I. xvii. 261 Grilled bones..dished up for you before bedtime.
1930 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 116 Cooked food was ‘dished out’ by the orderly men of the day.
1958 H. M. Hayward & M. Harari tr. B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago i. v. 133 Food was dished out and the used plates stacked in the hand-worked service-lift.
2. figurative. To present (attractively) for acceptance; to serve up. Also with up (†forth, out). In modern use, with out: to distribute; to give or hand out (often with the pejorative implication of a lack of care or discrimination). So to dish it out (U.S. colloquial): to deal out punishment; to fight hard.
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the mind > possession > giving > offer or action of offering > offer [verb (transitive)] > present attractively for acceptance
disha1616
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)]
britteneOE
to-dealeOE
dealOE
britOE
setc1275
dispensec1374
dispendc1375
to-seta1387
dispone1429
disposec1430
sparple1435
demean1439
distributea1464
distribue1477
issuec1484
communy1530
to deal out1535
impart1545
disperse1555
retail1576
digest1578
deliver1626
to hand out1648
to dispose of1676
dispensate1701
dole1701
to give out1710
sling1860
to give away1889
to pass out1926
dish1934
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. ii. 71 For Conspiracie, I know not how it tastes, though it be dish'd For me to try how. View more context for this quotation
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 58 Lest, thinking to offer him as a present to God, they dish him out for the Devill.
1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 332 The heavenly viands disht forth in the Gospel.
1756 G. Washington Let. in Wks. (1889) I. 265 Their success..dished up with a good deal of French policy, will encourage the Indians..to fall upon our inhabitants.
1858 J. Doran Hist. Court Fools 70 This story..has been dished up in a hundred different ways.
1934 Black Mask Mag. Oct. 13/1 You take [money] away fast enough, but you don't like to dish it out.
1939 I. Baird Waste Heritage vi. 82 Gabby could take it and he could dish it out.
1939 War Illustr. 21 Oct. p. ii/1 The drivel that is dished out between news bulletins.
1955 A. Huxley Genius & Goddess 36 Tripe and hogwash dished out by the moulders of public opinion.
1959 Cambr. Rev. 2 May 471/2 They dish out the gestetnered flysheet which does duty for it, free of charge.
1966 B. Kimenye Kalasanda Revisited 11 Offices..which dish out highly-coloured literature extolling the wonders of their country.
3. nonce-uses.
a. to dish about: to pass round in a dish, to drink in turns from a dish or bowl.
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1705 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) 331 Then dish about the Mothers health.
b. To receive (liquid) as in a dish.
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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > cause to suffer shipwreck [verb (transitive)] > take in (water)
lade1412
ship1698
dish1847
1847 H. Melville Omoo xvi. 59 The Julia reared up on her stern..and when she settled again forward, fairly dished a tremendous sea.
4. To fashion like a dish; to make concave like a dish or its sides; to hollow out; spec. to set the spokes of a (carriage-wheel) at such an inclination to the nave that the wheel is concave on one side (purposely or as the result of an accident).
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (transitive)] > make concave
hollowc1450
incavate1727
to jaw away1802
dish1805
concave1818
saucer1855
spoon1897
cup1909
1805 Agric. Surv. E. Lothian 74 (Jam.) Formerly the wheel was much dished, from a mistaken principle.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 584 Dish-out, to form coves by means of ribs, or wooden vaults for plastering upon.
1868 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 4 ii. 262 The yards are dished out in the centre to the depth of five feet.
1886 A. W. Greely 3 Years Arctic Service I. xxvii. 370 Seven hours' travelling over very rough ground ‘dished’ a wheel, and lunch was taken while repairs were being made.
1887 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 20 July 7/2 To facilitate turning the sharp ends, the eastern and western ends [of a bicycle-track] were ‘dished’.
5. intransitive. To be or become concave; to ‘cave in’.
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1669 [implied in: J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 232 They make them [Spokes] concave or dishing..to secure the Wheel from breaking in a fall. (at dishing adj.)].
1886 A. W. Greely 3 Years Arctic Service I. xxvii. 387 We had much trouble with our wagon, the wheel dishing frequently.
6. intransitive. Of a horse; To move the fore-feet in his trot not straight forward but with a circular or scooping motion.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [verb (intransitive)] > trot > dish
dish1846
1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain vii. 69 The Andalucian horse..is given to dishing with the feet.
1863 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 24 ii. 94 Curby or cow hocks [of a horse] with dishing speedy cutting, or slouching action [see cut n.2 7].
1869 F. Fitzwygram Horses & Stables §931 The more prominent defects..are rolling, dishing, cutting, and stumbling.
1895 Letter fr. Corresp. I think the best description of a horse that dishes, would be a horse that ‘winds his forefoot’.
7. transitive. slang. To ‘do for’, defeat completely, ruin; to cheat, circumvent. [ < the notion of food being done, and dished.]
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > defeat completely or do for
overthrowc1375
checkmatea1400
to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430
distrussc1430
crusha1599
panga1600
to fetch off1600
finish1611
settle?1611
feague1668
rout1676
spiflicate1749
bowl1793
to settle a person's hash1795
dish1798
smash1813
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
thunder-smite1875
scuppera1918
to put the bee on1918
stonker1919
to wrap up1922
root1944
banjax1956
marmalize1966
1798 Monthly Mag. (Farmer) Done up, dish'd.
1811 E. Nares Thinks I to Myself (1816) I. 208 He was completely dished—he could never have appeared again.
1819 Abeillard & Heloisa 10 A consummation greatly wish'd By nymphs who have been foully dish'd.
1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 31 July (1939) 209 It was five ere we got home, so there was a day dishd.
1828 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor VI. xxix. 308 If Fitzhenry can't raise the sum, he will be dished, and that in a few hours.
1830 B. Disraeli Let. 27 Aug. (1887) 32 He dished Prince Pignatelli at billiards.
1835 R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 419 You are now taking fresh ground, without owning..that on our first basis I dished you.
1869 Latest News 29 Aug. 8 The Conservative leader would be glad again to perform the operation of ‘dishing the Whigs’.
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion II. iv. 40 I believe it [sc. the House of Commons] to be completely used up. Reform has dished it.
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dishv.2
Scottish.
transitive. To push violently, thrust.
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1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. x. 70 They hae horns on their head to dish the like o' me.
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