dish the dirt

1. 1.

   wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies

   “She won't dish the dirt”

   Synonymsgossip

   Broadertalk

   Narrowerrumor

Questions about dish the dirt

What does dish the dirt mean?

dish the dirt means "wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies".

What is another word for dish the dirt?

Close synonyms include gossip. 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 the dirt a common word?

dish the dirt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.