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Webster 1913 Edition
Fishy
Fish′y
,Adj.
1.
Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.
Pope.
2.
Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul.
[Colloq.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Fishy
FISH'Y
, a.1.
Consisting of fish.2.
Inhabited by fish; as the fishy flood.3.
Having the qualities of fish; like fish; as a fishy form; a fishy taste or smell.Definition 2024
fishy
fishy
English
Noun
fishy (plural fishies)
Alternative forms
Translations
little fish
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Adjective
fishy (comparative fishier, superlative fishiest)
- Of, from, or similar to fish.
- What is that fishy odor?
- Suspicious; inspiring doubt.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 3, in The Celebrity:
- Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
- I don't trust him; his claims seem fishy to me.
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- (LGBT slang) Appearing feminine (of drag queens).
Derived terms
Translations
of, from, or similar to fish
suspicious; inspiring doubt
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