Crossword clues for dished
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dish \Dish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dished; p. pr. & vb. n. Dishing.]
To put in a dish, ready for the table.
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. [Low]
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to talk about (a person) in a disparaging manner; to gossip about (a person); as, the secretaries spent their break time dishing the newest employee. [slang] To dish out.
To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at table.
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(Arch.) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.
2. to dispense freely; -- also used figuratively; as, to dish out punishment; to dish out abuse or insult.
To dish up, to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc., and put in dishes to be served at table.
Wiktionary
Shaped like a dish; concave. v
(en-past of: dish)
WordNet
adj. shaped like a dish [syn: dish-shaped]
Usage examples of "dished".
He studied her downbent head for a long moment before he dished out some mashed potatoes onto his plate.
So, Wanda dished up and served ten enormous bowls of ice cream, and then stood at the sink, looking on as the Schultzes laughed and ate and finished making their signs.
She dished the pink-colored goop into two dishes and gave Sidra a spoon.
Betsy dished up the stew and put the spoons and bowls on the table, and soon the five absent daughters came home, rustling their flounces and flirting their parasols.
He sauteed onions and green pepper, threw in a can of tomatoes, peas, and cut-up ham, and dished it over Minute rice.
You say that I have been dished up to you as an antifederalist, and ask me if it be just.
He rationed it out to himself whenever he needed a change from the synthetic mush the aproned assistant dished out to him.
Tom dished up leftover lamb stew that, for once, Antryg was almost too exhausted to eat while Pothatch slipped out to puff his way up the hill to the Breadbox to beg more dream herbs from Q'iin.
I would advise her blackaviced suitor to look out: if another comes, with a longer or clearer rent-roll, -- he's dished -- "
He placed a watch glass on a dished firebrick and carefully measured out a small amount of the purple crystals from the up-time 'chemistry set.
He accepted his chicken salad wordlessly, keeping his eyes on Joan's hands as she dished his share out.
He dished cole slaw and potato salad onto his plate and selected a pair of corned-beef-on-ryes.
So Sedna sat at the edge of her chair with her coat half-buttoned while Clodagh dished up a containerful of the pasta.
So each sought to dish the dirt on the other and when celebrity dirt starts getting dished, there always seems sufficient to build a fair-sized Ziggurat, a step pyramid, two long barrows and an earthwork.
Emma, smiling, but not as brightly as the night before, dished out a big breakfast and said Chase had already eaten and was loading the horses.