verb (common).—To cheat; to circumvent; to disappoint; to ruin.

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  1798.  Monthly Magazine [quoted in Notes and Queries, 1 S., iv., p. 313. In the Monthly Magazine, in 1798, is a paper on peculiarilies of expression among which are … ‘done up,’ DISH’D, etc.

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  1811.  E. NARES, Thinks-I-to-Myself, I., 208. He was completely DISHED:—he could never have appeared again.

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  1819.  T. MOORE, Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress, p. 26.

        Or could old Nap himself, in his glory, have wish’d
To show up a fat Gemman more handsomely DISH’D?

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  1821.  W. T. MONCRIEFF, Tom and Jerry, i. 7. No, I’m out of spirits because I have been DISHED and doodled out of forty pounds to-day.

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  1884.  W. C. RUSSELL, Jack’s Courtship, ch. xvi. I oughtn’t to show a youngster like you any sympathy in this job of DISHING a parent’s hopes.

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