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fishy

[fish-ee]

adjective

fishier, fishiest 
  1. like a fish in shape, smell, taste, or the like.

  2. consisting of fish.

  3. abounding in fish.

  4. Informal.improbable, as a story; unlikely.

  5. Informal.of questionable character; suspicious.

    The sudden knockout was fishy.

    Synonyms: , , , ,
  6. dull and expressionless.

    fishy eyes.



fishy

/ ˈɪʃɪ /

adjective

  1. of, involving, or suggestive of fish

  2. abounding in fish

  3. informalsuspicious, doubtful, or questionable

    their leaving at the same time looked fishy

  4. dull and lifeless

    a fishy look

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • fishily adverb
  • fishiness noun
  • ˈھ󾱱 adverb
  • ˈھ󾱲Ա noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fishy1

First recorded in 1540–50; fish + -y 1
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It's the source of the smell of the sea, that sort of fishy, sort of eggy aroma that evokes deeply nostalgic reactions in, well, almost everyone.

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ever your views on this sort of urban planning, in the context of fiction it smells fake and fishy, and indeed, as will be made clear by the end of the first episode, it is.

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Meanwhile the taste can be "fishy" if the algae is a saltwater variety.

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On further investigation, his team discovered that many of those papers were riddled with fishy data and questionable images, such as duplicated lanes within Western blots.

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A pungent, fishy odor has been wafting through the air by Los Angeles’ shore this week, an unfortunate consequence of beautiful bioluminescent algae.

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