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dish
verb
to gossip, to disparage US, 1941
Originally “dish the dirt” or “dish out the dirt”.- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 263, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- “Are you trying to dish me, Mary?” she says angrily. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 53, 1963
- I could have dished her an earful, believe you me. — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 133, 1965
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 106, 1968
- O.K., if you don’t want to dish, we won’t dish. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 143, 1978
- When I mentioned Denise, she dished, “She used to work for a matchmaker named Helena who was indicted for fraud.” — Anka Radakovich, The Wild Girls Club, pp. 55–56, 1994
- [T]he lads would not come dropping by my cubicle to dish. — Rhiannon Paine, Too late for the Festival, p. 129, 1999
▶ dish it out
to have sex US- “I got it when I was a freshman, now I’m dishing it out.” — William Bernard, Jailbait, p. 24, 1949
▶ dish it out
when fighting or arguing, to attack with punishing force US, 1930- [George W.] Bush, not one to flinch from dishing it out himself, has come under savage attack from [Garry] Trudeau[.] — The Guardian, 27 May 2004
▶ dish soup
to sell cocaine US- — Mark S. Fleisher, Beggars & Thieves, p. 289, 1995: “Glossary”
▶ dish the dirt; dish it
to gossip indiscreetly or with slanderous intent US, 1926- Cocktail time hang-outs for models are the bars of the St. Clair and the Croydon, and the Cloverbar, where they dish the dirt. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 113, 1950
- They drank more bouillon, popped more bennie and dished the dirt. — Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 59, 1957
- DENISE [VAN OUTEN]: So can you dish the dirt on the others? VICTORIA [ADAMS]: Dish the dirt on the others. Well, fashion-wise, the only thing that I can dish the dirt is Geri wears really silly shoes[.] — Big Breakfast, 14 March 1998
- — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 172, 2002
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