dishier; dishiest
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: characterized by, full of, or given to gossip or disclosure
a dishy biography

Examples of dishy in a Sentence

twice a week he churns out a dishy column on the latest tidings from Tinseltown
Recent Examples on the Web Here, Warren gets to the meat of her story and to the kind of dishy details required of any proper (and marketable) political memoir. Michael Tomasky, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014 McPherson has an appealingly frank and dishy manner. Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024 All That Glitters, his accounting of Inigo Philbrick’s bad art friendship and even worse art fraud, is dishy and vulnerable and propulsive. Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 22 May 2024 The first episode focuses on the early days of the community and its lighter side — the jokes, the watch parties, the celebrity spats, the dishy threads (who could forget Zola?). Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See all Example Sentences for dishy 

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Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of dishy was in 1961

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“Dishy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dishy. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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