fishyadj.

Brit.

/ˈfɪʃi/, U.S.

/ˈfɪʃi/

Etymology: < fish n.¹ + -y suffix¹.

1. Abounding in fish. Now poetic or humorous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > [adjective] > fish-producing

fishy1552

fishable1611

fish-producing1890

the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > full of fish

fishy1552

fishful1558

pisculent1656

finny1764

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Fishye, or full of fishe..piscosus, pisculentus.

1632 J. Story tr. Short Surv. Sweden 20 Hath many fishie rivers and lakes.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 499 Bait the barb'd steel, and from the fishy flood Appease th' afflictive fierce desire of food.

1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 33 853 On the banks of that fishy loch we stood.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ix. 265 As when two winds upturn the fishy deep.

a. Resembling a fish or something belonging to a fish; fish-like.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > fish-like

fishy1611

piscose1686

pisciform1814

fish-like1835–6

ichthyoid1855

fish-shaped1878

ichthyomorphic1879

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. v. 4 Only the stump [margin. fishy part] of Dagon was left.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xix. 260 The Mermaids..with womans head above, and fishy extremity below.

a1701 H. Maundrell Acct. Journey from Aleppo in Journey to Jerusalem (1721) 2 Two Syrens, which twining their fishy Tails together, made a Seat.

1863 N. Macleod Reminisc. Highland Parish in Good Words 505 Lachlan had become so accustomed to this kind of fishy existence.

1868 A. Helps Realmah iii. 47 I know nothing of these fishy, half-under-water people.

in combination.1825 J. Neal Brother 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 combination fishy-eyed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > not manifesting emotion

stolidc1600

sodden1601

inexpressive1744

neutral1760

expressionless1831

fishy-eyed1836

undemonstrative1846

contained1882

dead-pan1928

stone-faced1932

tight-assed1961

tight-ass1969

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] > in appearance

fishy1836

pie-faced1891

cabbage-looking1898

tunny-faced1901

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > not manifesting emotion > of the eyes

stonieda1340

fishy1836

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc.

steepc1000

standing1340

glazenc1380

glassy1412

ungladlyc1450

sparklinga1500

goggle1540

pinking1566

whally1590

vailed1591

unweeping1598

dejected1600

unwet1601

glossed1602

haggard1605

saucer-like1612

saucer1618

glaring1622

uncast1629

startling1648

poppinga1696

upraised1707

glancy1733

glazed1735

almond1786

open-eyed1799

bald1807

glazing1808

lustreless1810

unfathomable1817

vague1820

soulless1824

beady1826

socketless1833

fishy1836

glazy1838

popped1849

agoggled1860

uprolled1864

unfaceted1893

shoe-button1895

poppy1899

googly1901

slitty1908

bead-berry1923

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having

goggle-eyedc1384

well-eyed1483

pink-eyed1519

hollow-eyeda1529

small-eyed1555

great-eyed1558

bird-eyed1564

out-eyed1570

large-eyed1575

full-eyed1581

bright-eyed1590

wall-eyed1590

beetle-eyed1594

fire-eyed?1594

young-eyed1600

open-eyed1601

soft-eyed1606

narrow-eyed1607

broad-eyed?1611

saucer-eyed1612

ox-eyed1621

pig-eyed1655

glare-eyed1683

pit-eyed1696

dove-eyed1717

laughing-eyed1784

almond1786

wide-eyed1789

moon-eyed1790

big-eyed1792

gooseberry-eyed1796

red-eyed1800

unsealed1800

screw-eyed1810

starry-eyed1818

pinkie-eyed1824

pop-eyed1830

bead-eyed1835

fishy-eyed1836

almond-eyed1849

boopic1854

sharp-set1865

bug-eyed1872

beady-eyed1873

bias-eyed1877

blank-eyed1881

gape-eyed1889

glass-eyed1889

stone-eyed1890

pie-eyed1900

slitty-eyed1908

steely-eyed1964

megalopic1985

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > expression

pinked1566

large-eyed1575

fishy1836

saucered1920

1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. i. 23 The door was opened by a tall, fishy-eyed maid.

1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xv. 136 The same vacant faces, looking with the same fishy stare into the lecturer's countenance.

1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. vi. 128 A pallid young man with a fishy eye.

1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > characteristic of or proceeding from

fishy1616

1616 G. Chapman tr. Musaeus Divine Poem 383 It is enough for thee To suffer for my love the fishy savours.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 168 Better pleas'd Then Asmodeus with the fishie fume.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. iv. 546 Which the fishy scent subdued.

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 211 An example of a pure fishy taste without the slightest degree of rankness.

4. Having the savour, smell, or taint of fish.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [adjective] > tasting or smelling of fish

fishy1667

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. Cxii^v Clawe nat thy skyn with fysshey fyngers.

1667 H. Stubbe in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 501 A Bird..called a Pellican, but a kind of Cormorant, that is of taste Fishy.

1791 F. Burney Let. 8 Aug. in Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 26 The part by the Sea..was so..fishy, that I rejoiced when we left it.

1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. vi. 90 The very air was fishy.

5. Consisting of fish; produced from fish.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > consisting of or produced from

fishy1699

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [adjective] > consisting or made of fish

fishy1699

fish-derived1883

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ii. 28 Soy is made partly with a Fishy composition.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 64 Wat'ry fowl, that seek their fishy food.

1879 C. Rossetti Seek & Find 279 In connexion with the fishy family.

1884 Illustr. London News 13 Dec. 571/3 The guests..washed down their fishy repast with Latour Blanche.

6. colloquial or slang.

a. (? With the notion ‘slippery as a fish’, or perhaps with allusion to meat with a ‘fishy’ taste.) Of dubious quality, unreliable, questionable, ‘shady’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > crookedness > [adjective] > and dubious

queer?a1513

fishy1840

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > shady or fishy

fishy1840

shady1862

smelly1944

1840 J. P. Kennedy Quodlibet 75 Jesse being..a little amphibious in his politics, or, in Mr. Fog's expressive language, rather fishy.

1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. i. ix. 112 I thought it was all up... The most fishy thing I ever saw.

1880 J. Payn Confidential Agent III. 151 Langton's French is very fishy.

1882 W. Black Shandon Bells xi I always heard he was fishy about money matters.

1882 American 5 83 Altogether, the story is too fishy.

b. Having ‘fishy’ eyes (see sense 2b); hence, languid or ‘seedy’, esp. as the result of a debauch.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disordered or out of sorts

out of estatec1400

disordainedc1430

out of order1530

mistempered?1541

untemperate1541

so-soa1592

indisposed1598

discomposed1603

out of sorts1621

disorderly1655

queerish1684

out of one's gears1699

disordered1708

uneasy1725

seedy1729

queer1749

scaly1803

quisby1807

under the weather1827

all nohow1852

toneless1854

nohowish1867

chippy1868

fishy1868

off-colour1876

dicky1883

on-and-offish1888

cheap1891

crook1916

lousy1933

1868 J. C. Wilcocks Sea-fisherman (ed. 2) 111 There he lay..certainly doosed fishy about the eyes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fishy
释义	fishyadj. Brit. /ˈfɪʃi/, U.S. /ˈfɪʃi/ Etymology: < fish n.¹ + -y suffix¹. 1. Abounding in fish. Now poetic or humorous. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > [adjective] > fish-producing fishy1552 fishable1611 fish-producing1890 the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > full of fish fishy1552 fishful1558 pisculent1656 finny1764 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Fishye, or full of fishe..piscosus, pisculentus. 1632 J. Story tr. Short Surv. Sweden 20 Hath many fishie rivers and lakes. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 499 Bait the barb'd steel, and from the fishy flood Appease th' afflictive fierce desire of food. 1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 33 853 On the banks of that fishy loch we stood. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer 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. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > fish-like fishy1611 piscose1686 pisciform1814 fish-like1835–6 ichthyoid1855 fish-shaped1878 ichthyomorphic1879 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. v. 4 Only the stump [margin. fishy part] of Dagon was left. View more context for this quotation 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xix. 260 The Mermaids..with womans head above, and fishy extremity below. View more context for this quotation a1701 H. Maundrell Acct. Journey from Aleppo in Journey to Jerusalem (1721) 2 Two Syrens, which twining their fishy Tails together, made a Seat. 1863 N. Macleod Reminisc. Highland Parish in Good Words 505 Lachlan had become so accustomed to this kind of fishy existence. 1868 A. Helps Realmah iii. 47 I know nothing of these fishy, half-under-water people. in combination.1825 J. Neal Brother 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 combination fishy-eyed adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > not manifesting emotion stolidc1600 sodden1601 inexpressive1744 neutral1760 expressionless1831 fishy-eyed1836 undemonstrative1846 contained1882 dead-pan1928 stone-faced1932 tight-assed1961 tight-ass1969 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] > in appearance fishy1836 pie-faced1891 cabbage-looking1898 tunny-faced1901 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > not manifesting emotion > of the eyes stonieda1340 fishy1836 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. steepc1000 standing1340 glazenc1380 glassy1412 ungladlyc1450 sparklinga1500 goggle1540 pinking1566 whally1590 vailed1591 unweeping1598 dejected1600 unwet1601 glossed1602 haggard1605 saucer-like1612 saucer1618 glaring1622 uncast1629 startling1648 poppinga1696 upraised1707 glancy1733 glazed1735 almond1786 open-eyed1799 bald1807 glazing1808 lustreless1810 unfathomable1817 vague1820 soulless1824 beady1826 socketless1833 fishy1836 glazy1838 popped1849 agoggled1860 uprolled1864 unfaceted1893 shoe-button1895 poppy1899 googly1901 slitty1908 bead-berry1923 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having goggle-eyedc1384 well-eyed1483 pink-eyed1519 hollow-eyeda1529 small-eyed1555 great-eyed1558 bird-eyed1564 out-eyed1570 large-eyed1575 full-eyed1581 bright-eyed1590 wall-eyed1590 beetle-eyed1594 fire-eyed?1594 young-eyed1600 open-eyed1601 soft-eyed1606 narrow-eyed1607 broad-eyed?1611 saucer-eyed1612 ox-eyed1621 pig-eyed1655 glare-eyed1683 pit-eyed1696 dove-eyed1717 laughing-eyed1784 almond1786 wide-eyed1789 moon-eyed1790 big-eyed1792 gooseberry-eyed1796 red-eyed1800 unsealed1800 screw-eyed1810 starry-eyed1818 pinkie-eyed1824 pop-eyed1830 bead-eyed1835 fishy-eyed1836 almond-eyed1849 boopic1854 sharp-set1865 bug-eyed1872 beady-eyed1873 bias-eyed1877 blank-eyed1881 gape-eyed1889 glass-eyed1889 stone-eyed1890 pie-eyed1900 slitty-eyed1908 steely-eyed1964 megalopic1985 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > expression pinked1566 large-eyed1575 fishy1836 saucered1920 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. i. 23 The door was opened by a tall, fishy-eyed maid. 1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xv. 136 The same vacant faces, looking with the same fishy stare into the lecturer's countenance. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. vi. 128 A pallid young man with a fishy eye. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles 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. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > characteristic of or proceeding from fishy1616 1616 G. Chapman tr. Musaeus Divine Poem 383 It is enough for thee To suffer for my love the fishy savours. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 168 Better pleas'd Then Asmodeus with the fishie fume. View more context for this quotation 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. iv. 546 Which the fishy scent subdued. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 211 An example of a pure fishy taste without the slightest degree of rankness. 4. Having the savour, smell, or taint of fish. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [adjective] > tasting or smelling of fish fishy1667 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. Cxii^v Clawe nat thy skyn with fysshey fyngers. 1667 H. Stubbe in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 501 A Bird..called a Pellican, but a kind of Cormorant, that is of taste Fishy. 1791 F. Burney Let. 8 Aug. in Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 26 The part by the Sea..was so..fishy, that I rejoiced when we left it. 1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. vi. 90 The very air was fishy. 5. Consisting of fish; produced from fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > consisting of or produced from fishy1699 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [adjective] > consisting or made of fish fishy1699 fish-derived1883 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ii. 28 Soy is made partly with a Fishy composition. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 64 Wat'ry fowl, that seek their fishy food. 1879 C. Rossetti Seek & Find 279 In connexion with the fishy family. 1884 Illustr. London News 13 Dec. 571/3 The guests..washed down their fishy repast with Latour Blanche. 6. colloquial or slang. a. (? With the notion ‘slippery as a fish’, or perhaps with allusion to meat with a ‘fishy’ taste.) Of dubious quality, unreliable, questionable, ‘shady’. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > crookedness > [adjective] > and dubious queer?a1513 fishy1840 society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > shady or fishy fishy1840 shady1862 smelly1944 1840 J. P. Kennedy Quodlibet 75 Jesse being..a little amphibious in his politics, or, in Mr. Fog's expressive language, rather fishy. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. i. ix. 112 I thought it was all up... The most fishy thing I ever saw. 1880 J. Payn Confidential Agent III. 151 Langton's French is very fishy. 1882 W. Black Shandon Bells xi I always heard he was fishy about money matters. 1882 American 5 83 Altogether, the story is too fishy. b. Having ‘fishy’ eyes (see sense 2b); hence, languid or ‘seedy’, esp. as the result of a debauch. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disordered or out of sorts out of estatec1400 disordainedc1430 out of order1530 mistempered?1541 untemperate1541 so-soa1592 indisposed1598 discomposed1603 out of sorts1621 disorderly1655 queerish1684 out of one's gears1699 disordered1708 uneasy1725 seedy1729 queer1749 scaly1803 quisby1807 under the weather1827 all nohow1852 toneless1854 nohowish1867 chippy1868 fishy1868 off-colour1876 dicky1883 on-and-offish1888 cheap1891 crook1916 lousy1933 1868 J. C. Wilcocks Sea-fisherman (ed. 2) 111 There he lay..certainly doosed fishy about the eyes. 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