fishy (redirected from fishier)

fish·y  (fsh)

adj. fish·i·er, fish·i·est

1. Resembling or suggestive of fish, as in taste or odor.

2. Cold or expressionless: a fishy stare.

3. Informal Inspiring doubt or suspicion: Something is fishy about the accident.

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fishi·ly adv.

fishi·ness n.

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fishy [ˈfɪʃɪ]

adj fishier, fishiest

1. of, involving, or suggestive of fish

2. abounding in fish

3. Informal suspicious, doubtful, or questionable their leaving at the same time looked fishy

4. dull and lifeless a fishy look

fishily  adv

fishiness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	fishy - of or relating to or resembling fish; "the soup had a fishy smell"
	2.	fishy - not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" suspect, suspicious, funny, shady colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech questionable - subject to question; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin"

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fishy

adjective

1. fishlike, piscine, piscatorial, piscatory It hasn't a very strong fishy flavour.

2. (Informal) suspicious, odd, suspect, unlikely, funny (informal), doubtful, dubious, dodgy (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. informal), queer, rum (Brit. slang), questionable, improbable, implausible, cock-and-bull (informal) There seems to be something fishy going on.

Translations

fishy [ˈfɪʃɪ] ADJ (fishier (compar) (fishiest (superl)))

1. [smell, taste] → a pescado

2. (= suspect) → sospechoso
there's something fishy about him → hay algo en él que resulta sospechoso
it sounds fishy to me → me huele a chamusquina(Sp)
there's something fishy going on here → aquí hay gato encerrado, me huele a chamusquina(Sp)

fishy [ˈfɪʃi] adj

[taste, smell] → de poisson

(made with fish) [dish] → au poisson

(= suspicious) → suspect(e), louche
It all sounds rather fishy to me → Ça m'a l'air louche.

fishy

adj (+er)

fishy smell → Fischgeruch m; it smells rather fishy → es riecht ziemlich nach Fisch

(inf) → verdächtig; excuse, story → faul (inf); there’s something fishy about his story → an seiner Geschichte ist was faul (inf); something fishy is going on → hier ist was faul (inf)

fishy [ˈfɪʃɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl)))

a. (smell, taste) (usu pej) → di pesce

b. (fam) (suspicious) → losco/a, sospetto/a