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Definition of Dish out
1. Verb. Administer or bestow, as in small portions. "They dish out the people the food"; "The machine dispenses soft drinks"
Generic synonyms: Give
Specialized synonyms: Allot, Assign, Portion, Reallot, Deal, Apply, Give
Derivative terms: Allotment, Deal, Dispensation, Dispensation, Dispenser, Dispenser, Distributer, Distribution, Distributor
2. Verb. Provide (usually but not necessarily food). "The chefs dish out the vegetables"; "The entertainers served up a lively show"
Specialized synonyms: Plank
Related verbs: Help, Serve
Generic synonyms: Cater, Ply, Provide, Supply
Derivative terms: Dish, Dish, Dish
Definition of Dish out
1. Verb. (transitive) To put (food) on to a dish ready for eating. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To distribute (a thing). ¹
3. Verb. (transitive figuratively) To distribute or deliver something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dish Out
Literary usage of Dish out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cook's Dictionary and House-keeper's Directory: A New Family Manual of by Richard Dolby (1830)
"... the chips upon the edge of the dish, out of the syrup, and ьо f?t them by.
Keep turning them until they have absorbed all the syrup, but take care that ..."
2. Virginia Cookery-book by Mary Stuart Smith (1912)
"To Make a Handsome dish out of an Old Hen.—Brunswick Stew.—Stewed Pigeons.—Rice
Pie. BEEFSTEAK. THE finest beef is required for really good steak. ..."
3. Feeds and Feeding Abridged by William Arnon Henry, Frank Barron Morrison (1915)
"For example, when a dog was given a false meal, and the swallowed food fell out
of the fistula, or opening, in the throat and back into the dish out of ..."
4. Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys: Collected During His Travels in the East by John Lewis Burckhardt (1831)
"... bringing with him the copper dish, out of which they had eaten when he received
them as guests. When he arrives at the tent of the robbers' sheikh, ..."
5. Bible Baptism: Or, The Immerser Instructed, from Various Sources by James E. Quaw (1844)
"As it would be inconsistent with common propriety for each of two persons to
immerse or put a hand entirely under the food in a dish out of which they and ..."
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