dishy

adjective

ˈdi-shē 

dishier; dishiest

1

: attractive, good-looking

2

: characterized by, full of, or given to gossip or disclosure

a dishy biography

Synonyms

• chattery
• chatty
• colloquial
• conversational
• gossipy
• newsy

Examples of dishy in a Sentence

twice a week he churns out a dishy column on the latest tidings from Tinseltown

Recent Examples on the Web

After a wave of celebrity memoirs last year made finding a gift for the bookish fans in your life easy, we’re left with a relative dearth of dishy autobiographical tomes in 2024 (with the exception of one by Cher, who always keeps the stans fed). —Vulture Staff, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024

While Tendler’s confessional writing style is reminiscent of a long email from a friend or dishy voice note, her memoir is anything but a gossipy tell-all. —Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024

Here, Warren gets to the meat of her story and to the kind of dishy details required of any proper (and marketable) political memoir. —Michael Tomasky, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014

McPherson has an appealingly frank and dishy manner. —Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined at sense 1