| 释义 |
fishy, a.|ˈfɪʃɪ|
[f. as prec. + -y1.]
1. Abounding in fish. Now poet. or humorous.
1552Huloet, Fishye, or full of fishe..piscosus, pisculentus. 1632J. Lee Short Surv. 20 Hath many fishie rivers and lakes. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 499 Bait the barb'd steel, and from the fishy flood Appease th' afflictive fierce desire of food. 1833Blackw. Mag. XXXIII. 853 On the banks of that fishy loch we stood. 1870Bryant Iliad I. ix. 265 As when two winds upturn the fishy deep.
2. a. Resembling a fish or something belonging to a fish; fish-like.
1611Bible 1 Sam. v. 4 Only the stump [marg. fishy part] of Dagon was left. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xix. 260 The Mermaids..with womans head above, and fishy extremity below. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) Add. 2 Two Syrens, which twining their fishy Tails together, made a Seat. 1863N. Macleod Remin. Highland Par. in Gd. Words 505 Lachlan had become so accustomed to this kind of fishy existence. 1868Helps Realmah iii. 47 I know nothing of these fishy, half-under-water people.
Comb.1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. xxvi, Getting over the ground upon a pair of droll, fat, fishy looking legs.
b. Of the eye: Dull, vacant of expression. Also in comb. fishy-eyed adj.
1836T. Hook G. Gurney III. 23 The door was opened by a tall, fishy-eyed maid. 1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole xv. (1879) 136 The same vacant faces, looking with the same fishy stare into the lecturer's countenance. 1862Sala Seven Sons I. vi. 128 A pallid young man with a fishy eye. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xi. 291 The Sheykh of the Cataract—a flat-faced, fishy-eyed old Nubian.
3. Of odour, taste, etc.: Characteristic of or proceeding from fish.
1616Chapman Musæus 383 It is enough for thee To suffer for my love the fishy savours. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 168 Better pleas'd Then Asmodeus with the fishie fume. 1791Cowper Odyss. iv. 546 Which the fishy scent subdued. 1837M. Donovan Dom Econ. II. 211 An example of a pure fishy taste without the slightest degree of rankness.
4. Having the savour, smell, or taint of fish.
1547Boorde Brev. Health §292 Clawe nat the skyn with fyshye fyngers. 1667H. Stubbe in Phil. Trans. II. 501 A Bird..called a Pellican, but a kind of Cormorant, that is of taste Fishy. 1791F. Burney Diary 8 Aug., The part by the sea..was so..fishy that I rejoiced when we left it. 1837Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) II. vi. 90 The very air was fishy.
5. Consisting of fish; produced from fish.
1699W. Dampier Voy. II. i. ii. 28 Soy is made partly with a Fishy composition. 1725Pope Odyss. v. 64 Watery fowl, that seek their fishy food. 1879C. Rossetti Seek & F. 279 In connexion with the fishy family. 1884Illust. Lond. News 13 Dec. 571/3 The guests..washed down their fishy repast with Latour Blanche.
6. colloq. or slang.
a. (? With the notion ‘slippery as a fish’, or perh. with allusion to meat with a ‘fishy’ taste.) Of dubious quality, unreliable, questionable, ‘shady’.
b. Having ‘fishy’ eyes (see 2 b); hence, languid or ‘seedy’, esp. as the result of a debauch.
1840J. P. Kennedy Quodlibet 75 Jesse being..a little amphibious in his politics, or, in Mr. Fog's expressive language, rather fishy. 1844Disraeli Coningsby i. ix, I thought it was all up..The most fishy thing I ever saw. 1865J. C. Wilcocks Sea Fisherm. (1875) 117 There he lay..certainly doosed fishy about the eyes. 1880J. Payn Confid. Agent III. 151 Langton's French is very fishy. 1882Black Shandon Bells xi, I always heard he was fishy about money matters. 1882American V. 83 Altogether, the story is too fishy. |