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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 ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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 adj (+er) (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) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Fishiest of all fishy places was the Try Pots, which well deserved its name; for the pots there were always boiling chowders. Another man in my place might be inclined to say that this Newfoundland boat-house was rather a sloppy, slimy, draughty, fishy sort of a habitation to take shelter in. In fact, placed before the strict and piercing truth, this whole story will fare like that fish, flesh, and fowl idol of the Philistines, Dagon by name; who being planted before the ark of Israel, his horse's head and both the palms of his hands fell off from him, and only the stump or fishy part of him remained. |
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