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garnish

verb
/ˈɡɑɹnɪʃ/US/ˈɡɑːnɪʃ/UK/ˈɡɑɹ.nɪʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English garnysshen, from Old French garniss-, stem of certain forms of the verb garnir, guarnir, warnir (“to provide, furnish, avert, defend, warn, fortify, garnish”), from a conflation of Old Frankish *warnijan (“to refuse, deny”) and *warnōn (“warn, protect, prepare, beware, guard oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *warnijaną (“to worry, care, heed”) and Proto-Germanic *warnōną (“to warn”); both from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to defend, protect, cover”). Cognate with Old English wiernan (“to withhold, be sparing of, deny, refuse, reject, decline, forbid, prevent from, avert”) and warnian (“to warn, caution, take warning, take heed, guard oneself against, deny”). More at warn.

  1. derived from *wer-✻ — “to defend, protect, cover”
  2. derived from *warnōną✻
  3. derived from *warnijaną✻ — “to worry, care, heed”
  4. derived from *warnijan✻
  5. derived from garnir
  6. inherited from garnysshen

Definitions

  1. To decorate with ornaments

    To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.

    • And all within with flowres was garnished,
    • […] the whip […] was garnished with a massive horse’s head of plated metal.

  2. To ornament with something placed around it.

    • a dish garnished with a sprig/spray of parsley

  3. To furnish

    To furnish; to supply.

    • By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
    • […] the good-humoured, affectionate-hearted Godfrey Cass was fast becoming a bitter man, visited by cruel wishes, that seemed to enter, and depart, and enter again, like demons who had found in him a ready-garnished home.
  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. To fit with fetters

      To fit with fetters; to fetter.

    2. To warn by garnishment

      To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.

    3. To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts)

      To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.

      • When the editorial board of Fire met again, we did not plan a new issue, but emptied our pockets to help poor Thurman whose wages were being garnished weekly because he had signed for the printer’s bills.

    4. A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.

    5. Pewter vessels in general.

      • The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish.

    6. Something added for embellishment.

      • This hard-headed old Overreach approved of the sentimental song, as the suitable garnish for girls, and also as fundamentally fine, sentiment being the right thing for a song.
      • There had been a semblance of chivalry in the attitude from which, at the beginning of their marriage, he had briefly regarded her; but forty-seven years had efficiently disposed of that garnish of politeness.

    7. Clothes

      Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.

      • So are you, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.

    8. Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.

    9. Fetters.

    10. A fee

      A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.

      • 1699, B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, London: W. Hawes et al., Garnish money, what is customarily spent among the Prisoners at first coming in.

    11. Cash.

    12. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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Derived

disgarnish, garnishable, garnishee, garnisher, garnishment, garnishor, garnishry, regarnish, ungarnish, all garnish and no meat, garnish bolt

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