dish

Meaning

Noun

1. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
2. The contents of such a vessel.
3. A specific type of prepared food.
4. Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
5. A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
6. (slang) A sexually attractive person.
7. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
8. A hollow place, as in a field.
9. (slang) The home plate.
10. A trough in which ore is measured.
11. That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
12. (slang) Gossip.

Verb

1. To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
2. (informal,slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
3. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
4. (slang) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”), from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish disk (“dish; counter”), Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”).