dished

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪʃt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃt

Verb

dished

1. simple past and past participle of dish

Adjective

dished

1. Shaped like a dish; concave.

   Bicycle and cart wheels are often dished.

2. (archaic, colloquial) Defeated, exhausted.
   • 1835 July, “[Review of Plantagenet]”, in The Westminster Review, volume 23, number 45, page 105:

     Getting tired, however, of this idol-worship, Lord Arthur gives out that he is ‘dished;’ and his worshippers depart from him as fast as they came.

   • 1841 March 12, John Henry Newman, “[Letter to Harriet Mozley]”, in Anne Mozley, editor, Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the English Church […], volume 2, published 1890, page 292:

     I fear I am clean dished. The Heads of Houses are at this very moment concocting a manifesto against me.

   • 1845 June 4, Geraldine Jewsbury, “[Letter to Jane Welsh Carlyle]”, in Anne Ireland, editor, Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle, published 1892, pages 161–2:

     I have been in splendid health, and was getting quite fat till within the last few days, when I caught cold on the stupid Rhine […] and just now I am very ‘dished’ indeed.

Derived terms

• undished

Related terms

• dishlike

Anagrams

• eddish