Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dish sth out
Participle: dished sth out
Gerund: dishing sth out
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dish sth out |
| you | dish sth out |
| he;she;it | dishes sth out |
| we | dish sth out |
| you | dish sth out |
| they | dish sth out |
Perfect
| I | have dished sth out |
| you | have dished sth out |
| he;she;it | has dished sth out |
| we | have dished sth out |
| you | have dished sth out |
| they | have dished sth out |
Past
| I | dished sth out |
| you | dished sth out |
| he;she;it | dished sth out |
| we | dished sth out |
| you | dished sth out |
| they | dished sth out |
Pluperfect
| I | had dished sth out |
| you | had dished sth out |
| he;she;it | had dished sth out |
| we | had dished sth out |
| you | had dished sth out |
| they | had dished sth out |
Future
| I | will dish sth out |
| you | will dish sth out |
| he;she;it | will dish sth out |
| we | will dish sth out |
| you | will dish sth out |
| they | will dish sth out |
Future Perfect
| I | will have dished sth out |
| you | will have dished sth out |
| he;she;it | will have dished sth out |
| we | will have dished sth out |
| you | will have dished sth out |
| they | will have dished sth out |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dish sth out |
| you | dish sth out |
| he;she;it | dish sth out |
| we | dish sth out |
| you | dish sth out |
| they | dish sth out |
Perfect
| I | have dished sth out |
| you | have dished sth out |
| he;she;it | have dished sth out |
| we | have dished sth out |
| you | have dished sth out |
| they | have dished sth out |
Imperfect
| I | dished sth out |
| you | dished sth out |
| he;she;it | dished sth out |
| we | dished sth out |
| you | dished sth out |
| they | dished sth out |
Pluperfect
| I | had dished sth out |
| you | had dished sth out |
| he;she;it | had dished sth out |
| we | had dished sth out |
| you | had dished sth out |
| they | had dished sth out |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dish sth out |
| you | would dish sth out |
| he;she;it | would dish sth out |
| we | would dish sth out |
| you | would dish sth out |
| they | would dish sth out |
Perfect
| I | would have dished sth out |
| you | would have dished sth out |
| he;she;it | would have dished sth out |
| we | would have dished sth out |
| you | would have dished sth out |
| they | would have dished sth out |
Imperative
| you | dish sth out |
| we | Let's dish sth out |
| you | dish sth out |
Verbs conjugated like 'dish'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dish'
dash,
dich,
dis,
disc,
disk,
diss,
dush,
fish,
hish,
pish,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to talk about someone else's private or personal business
- blab, chelp, clepe, dish the dirt, gossip, jaunder, labrish, shoot the shit, talk out of turn, tattle, tell tales out of school, tittle-tattle
Additional Information
Etymology
1. O.E. disc "plate, bowl, platter," borrowed c.700 from L. discus "dish, platter, quoit," from Gk. diskos "disk, platter." O.H.G. borrowed the word as tisc "plate," but Ger. tisch now means "table," in common with other later Romantic forms (cf. It. desco, Fr. dais). Meaning "variety of food served" is first recorded c.1450. Verb meaning "to disparage, denigrate" first recorded 1940s; probably from the same notion in fig. dish it out (1934). Dish-cloth (1828) relegated earlier dish-clout (1530) to dialect. Dish-washer is c.1529, of persons, 1867 of machines. Dish-water is attested from 1484. Dishy "very attractive" is attested from 1961.
2. From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *dъska, whence Bulgarian дъска́ (dăská), Polish deska, Russian доска́ (doská)), Russian чан (čan)) from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”).
5. Compare the identical meaning expansion (vessel for food, then also content of such a vessel, then also specific type of food): Bulgarian блю́до (bljúdo), Russian блю́до (bljúdo). For the roundness aspect, compare Polish rondel (“pan, saucepan”) (< Latin rotundus (whence also English round)), Slovene krožnik < krog. Also compare typologically Proto-Slavic *misъka << Latin mēnsa; Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax) (several meanings).
Sample Sentences
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In the car with you I heard Joe's voice ― complaining about how invisible black people still are to whites; praising artists we admire; dishing someone's bad taste; planning future adventures; […] [1989 February 5, Jewelle Gomez, “Journey”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 9:]
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to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
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Have the Tories "dished the Whigs"? [1867, The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, page 460:]