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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of fishify.

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Examples

  • Be the first to see clips of Martin Scorsese as a bushy-browed puffer fish and Robert De Niro as a shark living in a "fishified version of New York," said Diana Loomis, head of East Coast communications for DreamWorks.

    Will 2004 Be the Year Tribeca Sells a Film? 2004

  • Without his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

    Romeo and Juliet 2004

  • Be the first to see clips of Martin Scorsese as a bushy-browed puffer fish and Robert De Niro as a shark living in a "fishified version of New York," said Diana Loomis, head of East Coast communications for DreamWorks.

    Will 2004 Be the Year Tribeca Sells a Film? 2004

  • "Oh, flesh! how art thou fishified;" and begin to think that Shakspeare might have had a living original for his horrid Caliban: for they are mostly selected from amongst fishermen, on account of their excellent knowledge of the coast, and most perfectly retain their amphibious characteristics.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 384, August 8, 1829 Various

  • In its best days, it was second only to Bath, and little did its belles and beaux dream of the fishified village of Brighthelmstone, in the adjoining county, spreading to a city, and being docked of its syllabic proportions to the

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829 Various

  • QUOTATION: O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

    Quotations 1919

  • Now is the time to adventure a new reading of Shakespeare, and vow that Hamlet had an eye to a sea voyage, when he exclaimed "Oh flesh, how art thou fishified!"

    Extracts from a Lady's Log-Book, 1832

  • -- "Ditto," quoth Peter; and down crumbles all my fine fabric of resolutions, only to be rebuilt tomorrow, before breakfast again, or at any odd moment, when one's flesh is somewhat fishified.

    Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

  • By around 9 o'clock I was pretty much de-fishified and ripe for kissing so ventured to a couple of bars where I failed to find anyone to take up that tempting opportunity.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Without his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

    Romeo and Juliet 1595

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