Dished

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /dɪʃt/

Definitions

1. To have placed food in a particular arrangement for serving; to have formed an item with a hollowed or curved contour; to have conveyed details or topics in a specific or unique way
2. Put food onto a plate for eating ; shaped something so that it curves inward ; communicated gossip or news casually
3. Arranged food on a dish to be eaten ; molded into a hollow or rounded form ; told personal or informal information

Etymology: Before "dished" meant serving food, the word it comes from named a flat table. Old English "disċ" meant a plate or bowl, but its Proto-West Germanic ancestor "*disk" carried the sense "table," and cognates in Dutch, German ("Tisch") and Swedish still preserve that older meaning. The thread runs from the table surface to the plate set on it, and then to the food on the plate. The same expansion happened on the way to the modern sense. A dish first meant the vessel itself, then the contents of that vessel, and then a specific kind of food, as in a "dish of the day." Other languages followed the same path: Russian "блю́до" (bljúdo) moved from plate to meal in the same way. The surface-to-container link also reaches back to Latin "discus," the source of the word's family, which gives us "disc," "desk" and "dais." These are doublets, meaning English received the same Latin root more than once through different routes.

Synonyms: served, plated