Garnished vs Bedraggled - What's the difference?
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(garnish)
To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
* Spenser
(cooking) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
To furnish; to supply.
(slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter
(legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.
A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
Pewter vessels in general.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 478:
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy or decorated.
* Shakespeare
* Prior
(cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
(slang, obsolete) Fetters.
(slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
wet and limp; unkempt
decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
* 1919 , (Saki), The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
(bedraggle)
As verbs the difference between garnished and bedraggled
is that garnished is past tense of garnish while bedraggled is past tense of bedraggle.As an adjective bedraggled is
wet and limp; unkempt.garnished
English
Verb
(head)garnish
English
Verb
- All within with flowers was garnished .
- By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)
- (Johnson)
Derived terms
* garnishee * garnishment * garnishorNoun
(garnishes)- The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish .
- So are you, sweet, / Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
- Matter and figure they produce; / For garnish this, and that for use.
- (Fielding)
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*bedraggled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.