/ˈfɪʃi/
OriginFrom Middle English fishi, fischey, equivalent to fish + -y.
- Of, from, or similar to fish.
“What is that fishy odor?”
“The ſwifteſt Ship beneath with ſudden Chains / In mid Career the fiſhy Bank detains. / The Wind all uſeleſs in the Canvas roars, / In vain the Sailors tug the ſticking Oars. / Fixt as a Rock the ſtead”
“[William] Dampier. The Fleſh of both young and old is lean and black, yet very good Meat, taſting neither fiſhy nor unſavoury: A Diſh of Flamingo's Tongues being fit for a Prince's Table. They are lar”
- figurativelySuspicious; inspiring doubt.
“I don't trust him; his claims seem fishy to me.”
“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”
“There was something more to this than met the eye, and he had the distinct feeling that the marshal had just snookered him into a corner. But he couldn't very well refuse, and it would look fishy if h”
- Of a drag queen or a trans woman: appearing very feminine and resembling a cisgender woman.
“One day I dressed up all out fishy to go to my mother's place. I knocked and started walking in past her. She was like 'Can I help you?' I said, 'Ma?' and she was like OMG! She actually thought I was ”
- childish, diminutive, form-ofDiminutive of fish.
“You shall have a fishy / In a little dishy; / You shall have a fishy / When the boat comes in.”
“When Sachie got out of the tub and got her baby out of the tub her mom had her talk down the drain to the fishies and froggies. […] "Are you ready fishies? Are you ready froggies?" Both Sachie and mom”
“I wish I were a fishy in the sea— / I wish I were a fishy in the sea— / I'd go swimming in the nudie without my bathing suity / Oh, I wish I were a fishy in the sea—”
Formsfishier(comparative) · fishiest(superlative) · fishie(alternative) · fishies(plural)