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fishy

/ˈfɪʃi/

noun

Meaning

  • A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

    "Salmon is a fish."

  • Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

  • The flesh of the fish used as food.

    "The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta."

  • A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.

  • A woman.

  • An easy victim for swindling.

  • A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).

  • A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.

  • A purchase used to fish the anchor.

  • A torpedo.

  • A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:

  • The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

Synonyms

donk,
donkey,
Go Fish,
mark

noun

Meaning

  • A period of time spent fishing.

    "The fish at the lake didn't prove successful."

  • An instance of seeking something.

    "Merely two fishes for information told the whole story."

noun

Meaning

  • A counter, used in various games.

adjective

Meaning

  • Of, from, or similar to fish.

    "What is that fishy odor?"

  • Suspicious; inspiring doubt.

    "I don't trust him; his claims seem fishy to me."

  • Of drag queens: appearing feminine.

Synonyms

fishlike,
fishly,
ichthyic,
piscine