garnish
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Is garnish a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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What is the meaning of garnish?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.Examples: "a dish garnished with parsley"
2. (archaic) To furnish; to supply.Examples: "By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent."; "[…] the good-humoured, affectionate-hearted Godfrey Cass was fast becoming a bitter man, visited by cruel wishes, that seemed to enter, and depart, and enter again, like demons who had found in him a ready-garnished home."archaic
3. (slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter.archaicslang
4. (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
5. (law) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.Examples: "When the editorial board of Fire met again, we did not plan a new issue, but emptied our pockets to help poor Thurman whose wages were being garnished weekly because he had signed for the printer’s bills."
noun (English)
1. (cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.countableuncountable
2. (slang, obsolete) Fetters.countableobsoleteslanguncountable
3. (slang, historical, uncountable) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.Examples: "1699, B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, London: W. Hawes et al., Garnish money, what is customarily spent among the Prisoners at first coming in."; "This person then […] acquainted him that it was the custom of the place for every prisoner, upon his first arrival there, to give something to the former prisoners to make them drink. This, he said, was what they called garnish; and concluded with advising his new customer to draw his purse upon the present occasion."historicalslanguncountable
4. (US, slang) Cash.UScountableslanguncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary