2022-04-22 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – G – garnish & garnishee

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2022-04-22

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – G – garnish & garnishee

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง “garnish” = ‘GAHR-nish’

ออกเสียง “garnishee” = ‘gahr-ni-SHEE’

Ref.: http://www.gotoknow.org/posts/598367 and 683236

 

 

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression

Garnish - garnishee

Garnish means

(1) to decorate, to adorn, to supply with something 

          (A good chef will garnish a casserole like this with parsley): 

and (2) to attach money or property 

          (If you don’t pay the debt, we shall have to garnish your salary). 

 

The verb garnish is more usually rendered as garnishee, 

         which is also a noun meaning

         a person whose money or property has been attached: 

“The judge ordered the creditor to garnishee half of my pay.”

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

History and Etymology for garnish

Verb

Middle English garnishen "to equip, decorate," 

borrowed from Anglo-French garniss-, present stem of garnir, 

warnir "to give notice, warn, instruct, give legal summons, 

provide (for), equip, trim, decorate," 

going back to Old Low Franconian *warnjan-, 

variant or reduction of West Germanic *warnōjan- "to make aware" 

— more at WARN

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

Choose the Right Synonym for garnish

Verb

Adorn, Decorate, Ornament, Embellish, Beautify, Deck, Garnish 

mean to enhance the appearance of something 

by adding something unessential.

Adorn implies an enhancing by something beautiful in itself.  

               a diamond necklace adorned her neck

Decorate suggests relieving plainness or monotony 

by adding beauty of color or design.  

     decorate a birthday cake

               Decorate and Embellish imply the adding of something 

               extraneous,

Ornament stressing the heightening or setting off of the original  

                a white house ornamented with green shutters,

Embellish often stressing the adding of superfluous or adventitious ornament.  

       embellish a page with floral borders

Beautify adds to Embellish a suggestion of 

counterbalancing plainness or ugliness.  

      will beautify the grounds with flower beds

Deck implies the addition of something that contributes 

to gaiety, splendor, or showiness.  

       a house all decked out for Christmas

Garnish suggests decorating with a small final touch and 

is used especially in referring to the serving of food.  

       an entrée garnished with parsley 

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

Did you know?

Although we now mostly garnish food, 

            the general application of the "decorate" sense is older. 

The link between embellishing an object or space 

and adding a little parsley to a plate is not too hard to see, 

but how does the sense relating to debtors' wages fit in? 

 

The answer lies in the word's Anglo-French root, garnir, 

which has various meanings including 

"to give notice or legal summons" and "to decorate." 

 

Before wages were garnished, 

the debtor would be served with a legal summons or warning. 

         The legal sense of garnish now focuses on the taking of the wages,              

         but it is rooted in the action of furnishing the warning.