Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling or suggestive of fish, as in taste or odor.
- adj. Cold or expressionless: a fishy stare.
- adj. Informal Inspiring doubt or suspicion: Something is fishy about the accident.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Abounding in fish; inhabited by fish: as, the fishy flood.
- Like fish; having a fish-like quality: as, a fishy taste or smell.
- Extravagant, as a story; dubious or incredible, like many stories told about fishing and fishes. Compare fish-story.
- Dull and expressionless, like the eye of a fish.
- Equivocal, unsafe, or unsound, as a speculation or a course of conduct: as, a fishy venture.
- Plucky; brave; sturdy and enduring; thorough and faithful in duty: as, fishy to the backbone; a fishy man.
Wiktionary
- n. childish Diminutive of fish
- adj. Of, from, or similar to fish.
- adj. Suspicious; inspiring doubt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.
- adj. colloq. Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or resembling fish
- adj. not as expected
Examples
“The general odor of the man she loves, one woman states, is highly, sometimes even overwhelmingly, attractive to her; but the specific odor of the male sexual organs which she describes as fishy has no attraction.”
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
“What's fishy is Norwood originally beat Reed by 10% and now supposedly is losing by 0.8%”
“In regards to Gary Coleman and his death … it smelt fishy from the beginning.”
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“While ask for a debate in NC, she turned it down and now this .. something fishy is going on.”
“Until I am given a reasonable explanation other than ‘lack of experience, empty suit’ I will think something fishy is going on with these polls. —”
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“Fact 7: Other people, like chunkdz, independently think something fishy is going on.”
“In this volume, we accompany Snow White and her estranged sister Rose Red in a road trip to The Farm, where they discover that something very fishy is going on.”
“We do not allow our soldiers to enter mosques to see if something fishy is going on.”
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“One would think that something fishy is going on, but in many cases it's just plain amateurism.”
“Starting to sound really fishy, is this just a ploy to keep it at the top of the press coverage?”
Waldo Jaquith - Republicans’ opportunistic support of Rep. Jefferson.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fishy’.
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 297 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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That STINKS!
Words having to do with terrible smells.
odor, putrid, stank, stink, smell, horrid, foul, putrecence, awful, rotting, garbage, toilet and 14 more...
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Animal Characteristics
Any words that have relation to animal characteristics.
lupine, elephantine, swinish, reptilian, mousy, lion-hearted, fishy, hawkish, foxy, leonine, squirrelly, verminous and 3 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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Inspiration Collection
piece of cake, firewater, sweetbrier, artesian, artisan, plenty, figurehead, incendiary, vignette, few, minimalism, NO and 40 more...
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Disliked
Words I dislike.
fish, superficial, fetus, fishy, meat, kewl, sweet, scallop, bugaboo, assay, fuzz, bleak
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shineyquarter's Words
onomatopoeia, lurk, shiny, fishy, wikipedia, umbrella, swoosh, squee, ambrosia, flummery, woot
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Gone fishy
fishy, moon juice, fishmonger, myriad, zenzizenzizenzic, urinal etiquitte, cold turkey, ambient, moldwarp, pillow talk, fishwife, weirdo and 12 more...
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Word.
Module, contraption, abyssmal, facetious, lederhosen, antifungal, fishy
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