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 Disease,Dish-washer (A). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Dished (1 syl.).
 
I was dished out of it. Cheated out of it; or rather, some one else contrived to obtain it. A contraction of disherit. The heir is dish’t out of his inheritance when his father marries again and leaves his property to the widow and widow’s family.
       
“Where’s Brummel? Dished!”
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Byron: Don Juan.
 


 Disease,Dish-washer (A). 

 
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