dished adj.
(also dished up) ruined, beaten, silenced.
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Dishd up. he is completely dfdished up. He is entirely ruind. | ||
, | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) n.p.: Dished up. He is completely dished up; he is totally ruined. | |
Walsingham IV 277: Fine news! – I’m dished – done up. The sharps have queered me. | ||
letter in Aderman & Kime Advocate for America: The Life of J.K. Paulding (2003) 32: At Six we started for New York, where we arrived at the Seven in the Evening, looking as much like two vagabonds, as any two Gentlemen you wish to see in a summer’s day – fatigued, jaded, and in short to use a new phrase, completely ‘dished.’. | ||
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Adventures of Johnny Newcome IV 235: He had been dished, beyond all hope. | ||
Real Life in London I 154: Was devilishly afraid of being nabb’d just now — should have been dished if I had. | ||
Kentuckian in N.Y. I 96: I’m a Turk if I ain’t tetotally dished. | ||
Andrew Jackson 125: Completely dish’d up and spiflicated. | ||
‘The Farmer’s Sprig’ in Frisky Vocalist 36: The farmer was swished, / And to get a boy was all that he wished; / And happy to say his hopes were not dish’d. | ||
Ingoldsby Legends (1842) 236: If you ‘go it’ too fast, / You’ll be ‘dish’d’ like Sir Guy. | ‘Lay of St. Cuthbert’ in||
Manliness 18: To be disappointed is to be ‘dished’. | ||
Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. | ||
Semi-Attached Couple (1979) 97: He has become reckless, and will be thoroughly dished. | ||
Hamlet the Dainty Act III: I’m dished! | ||
Police Sergeant C 21 132: Don’t you think you’ve been dished and nicely this time. | ||
Dead Bird (Sydney) 14 Sept. 2/1: According to the latest Yankee slang phrase, when a man is ‘in the soup’ it means he is ‘dished’. | ||
Yale Yarns 56: If that rubber elastic breaks he’s dished! | ||
Brought to Bay 12: If this American scheme goes to pot, I am dished for life. | ||
Varmint 101: Dished! Spinked! He’ll flunk me every day. I certainly am in the wrong! | ||
Inimitable Jeeves 137: We’re dished! | ||
Bread-Winner Act II: Well, I’m dished. | ||
Und. Speaks 31/2: Dished, taken for a ride and slain. | ||
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 201: Once let this Trotter get away to Liverpool and she would be dished. | ||
Early Havoc 210: [H]e’s worked too hard all through this show. Look at him. He’s dished!’. | ||
Jeeves in the Offing 52: Uncle Tom’s deal would be dished. |
In exclamations
a euph. for I’ll be damned! under damn v.
Peter Simple (1911) 62: They’ve nabbed my husband; but I’ll be dished if I hav’n’t boxed up the midship-mite in that parlour, and he shall take his place. | ||
Bushrangers 398: I’ll be dished if I don’t – drop yer if yer talk in that kind of style. |