dish out

English

Verb

dish out (third-person singular simple present dishes out, present participle dishing out, simple past and past participle dished out)

1. (transitive) To put (food) on to a dish ready for eating.
2. (transitive) To distribute (a thing).
3. (transitive, figuratively) To distribute or deliver something.

   She can dish out criticism but she can't take it.

   • March 26 2023, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Saka was a threat from the first whistle; Ukraine rightly wary of him and dishing out the usual whacks.

4. (transitive, architecture) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.

Synonyms

• (food): dish up, serve
• (distribute): distribute, give out, hand out, hand round, pass out, pass round
• (figuratively): give out

Translations

to put (food) on to a dish

• Dutch: opdienen (nl), dienen (nl), dissen (nl) (only in very specific context or expressions, dis is an old word for dining table, so it literally means: put on the table), opdissen (nl) (only in very specific context or expressions)
• Finnish: tarjoilla (fi), annostella (fi)
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 大皿に盛る (おおざらにもる, ōzara ni moru)
• Quechua: qaray
• Spanish: emplatar (es)

to distribute

• Finnish: tarjota (fi)
• Japanese: 取り分ける (ja) (とりわける, toriwakeru)
• Romanian: distribui (ro)

figuratively

• Finnish: jakaa (fi), jaella (fi)
• Japanese: 配る (ja) (くばる, kubaru), 与える (ja) (あたえる, ataeru)
• Romanian: împărți (ro)