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dishy

adj
/ˈdɪʃ.i/

Etymology

From dish (“vessel for food”) + -y (forming familiar nouns).

  1. derived from discus
  2. inherited from *disk✻ — “table; dish”
  3. inherited from disċ — “plate; bowl; dish”
  4. inherited from dissh
  5. suffixed as dishy — “dish + y”

Definitions

  1. Attractive

    Attractive; good-looking; sexy.

    • Let me set the scene. You spy a dishy stranger across a bar. The attraction is instant. The urges are strong. What do you do?

  2. Tending to relay information and gossip.

    • "[…] that transformed her into a shimmering golden redhead." That color became Lucy's trademark hair color for the rest of her career. Guilaroff wrote a dishy memoir in 1996, Crowning Glory […]
    • A reference book that also takes a playful glimpse into the personal lives of some fascinating artists and personalities Kramer peppers this superior tome with the kind of dishy details that will keep readers turning the page.
    • Without some dishy details, Vern might not pass my name up the ladder. I jumped up, restless.

  3. A dishwasher (someone who washes dishes).

    • I found a job washing dishes at Fish on Parkyn, one of the Sunshine Coast’s leading restaurants. […] When I got the job as a dishy at Fish on Parkyn I don’t think anyone there expected I would last long.
    • My years as a ‘dishy’ in a commercial kitchen showed me the importance of balancing an element of play while simultaneously managing time and tasks wisely.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dishy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA