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Is garnish a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word garnish is a Scrabble US word. The word garnish is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is garnish a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word garnish is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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7-letter words (3 found)

GARNISH,RASHING,SHARING,

6-letter words (13 found)

AGRINS,ARSHIN,ARSING,ASHING,GARISH,GRAINS,HANGIS,HARING,RAHING,RANGIS,RASING,SARING,SHAIRN,

5-letter words (35 found)

AGRIN,AHING,AIRNS,ANIGH,ARISH,GAINS,GAIRS,GARIS,GARNI,GIRNS,GIRSH,GNARS,GNASH,GRAIN,GRANS,GRINS,HAINS,HAIRS,HANGI,HANGS,HARNS,HINGS,NARIS,NASHI,NIGHS,RAGIS,RAINS,RANGI,RANGS,RANIS,RINGS,SANGH,SARIN,SHARN,SIGNA,

4-letter words (63 found)

AGIN,AHIS,AINS,AIRN,AIRS,ANIS,ARGH,ARIS,GAIN,GAIR,GANS,GARI,GARS,GASH,GHIS,GINS,GIRN,GNAR,GRAN,GRIN,GRIS,HAGS,HAIN,HAIR,HANG,HARN,HING,HINS,HISN,INGS,ISNA,NAGS,NGAI,NIGH,NISH,RAGI,RAGS,RAHS,RAIN,RAIS,RANG,RANI,RASH,RIAS,RIGS,RING,RINS,SAIN,SAIR,SANG,SARI,SHAG,SHAN,SHIN,SHIR,SHRI,SIGH,SIGN,SING,SINH,SNAG,SNAR,SNIG,

3-letter words (45 found)

AGS,AHI,AHS,AIN,AIR,AIS,ANI,ANS,ARS,ASH,GAN,GAR,GAS,GHI,GIN,GIS,HAG,HAN,HAS,HIN,HIS,ING,INS,ISH,NAG,NAH,NAS,NIS,RAG,RAH,RAI,RAN,RAS,RIA,RIG,RIN,SAG,SAI,SAN,SAR,SHA,SIG,SIN,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (14 found)

AG,AH,AI,AN,AR,AS,GI,HA,HI,IN,IS,NA,SH,SI,

You can make 173 words from garnish according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of garnish

garnish

Etymology

From Middle English garnysshen, from Old French garniss-, stem of certain forms of the verb garnir, guarnir, warnir (“to provide, furnish, avert, defend, warn, fortify, garnish”), from a conflation of Old Frankish *warnijan (“to refuse, deny”) and *warnōn (“warn, protect, prepare, beware, guard oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *warnijaną (“to worry, care, heed”) and Proto-Germanic *warnōną (“to warn”); both from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to defend, protect, cover”). Cognate with Old English wiernan (“to withhold, be sparing of, deny, refuse, reject, decline, forbid, prevent from, avert”) and warnian (“to warn, caution, take warning, take heed, guard oneself against, deny”). More at warn.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑɹnɪʃ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑːnɪʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ

Verb

garnish (third-person singular simple present garnishes, present participle garnishing, simple past and past participle garnished)

  1. To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
    • 1710, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 163, 25 April, 1710, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 165,[2]
      […] as that admirable writer has the best and worst verses of any among our English poets, Ned Softly has got all the bad ones without book, which he repeats upon occasion, to shew his reading, and garnish his conversation.
  2. (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
  3. (archaic) To furnish; to supply.
  4. (slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter.
  5. (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
  6. (law) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.

Derived terms

  • garnishee
  • garnishment
  • garnishor

Related terms

  • garment
  • garnison

Translations

Noun

garnish (plural garnishes)

  1. A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
  2. Pewter vessels in general.
  3. Something added for embellishment.
    Synonyms: decoration, ornament
    • 1718, Matthew Prior, Alma: or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto 1, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 333,[5]
      First Poets, all the World agrees,
      Write half to profit, half to please
      Matter and figure They produce;
      For Garnish This, and That for Use;
  4. Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
  5. (cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
    Hyponyms: lemon wedge, parsley, capers
    Coordinate terms: spice, condiment
  6. (slang, obsolete) Fetters.
  7. (slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
    • 1699, B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, London: W. Hawes et al.,[8]
      Garnish money, what is customarily spent among the Prisoners at first coming in.
  8. (US, slang) Cash.

Derived terms

  • garnish bolt

Translations

References

  • “garnish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “garnish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “garnish”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Further reading

  • garnish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Harings, rashing, sharing

Middle English

Noun

garnish

  1. Alternative form of garnyssh

Source: wiktionary.org