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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)

  1. (childish) diminutive of fish

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Adjective

fishy (comparative fishier, superlative fishiest)

  1. Of, from, or similar to fish.
    What is that fishy odor?
  2. 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.
  3. (LGBT slang) Appearing feminine (of drag queens).

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