Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of dish
comparative more dished · superlative most dished
- archaiccolloquialDefeated, exhausted.
I fear I am clean dished. The Heads of Houses are at this very moment concocting a manifesto against me.
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 2922 more examples
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.
1835 July, “[Review of Plantagenet]”, in The Westminster Review, volume 23, number 45, page 105I 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.
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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveshaped like a dish or pan
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dished. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dished
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