disher

English

Etymology

dish + -er

Noun

disher (plural dishers)

  1. (obsolete) A dish maker.
  2. (obsolete) One who dishes up food.
  3. (figurative) One who dishes out or dispenses anything.
    • 2009 August 14, Jim Coyle, “Going from pulp to friction”, in Toronto Star‎[1]:
      That anyone would willingly swap being the disher of easy criticism, second-guessing, amateur psychoanalysis, pious lectures and sundry other grief to become the dishee is probably cause for an intervention.
  4. A type of scoop with a lever that helps the user dig through hard substances such as ice cream.

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