dish out

Questions about dish out

What does dish out mean?

dish out means "administer or bestow, as in small portions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for dish out?

Close synonyms include distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dish out a common word?

dish out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.