Crossword clues for fishy
fishy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fishy \Fish"y\, a.
Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.
--Pope.Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "fish-like, slimy," from fish (n.) + -y (2). In reference to taste, from 1540s. Sense of "shady, questionable" is first recorded 1840, perhaps from the notion of "slipperiness," or of giving off a bad odor.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, from, or similar to fish. 2 suspicious; inspiring doubt. alt. 1 Of, from, or similar to fish. 2 suspicious; inspiring doubt. n. (context childish English) (diminutive of fish English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Fishy may refer to:
- Fish
- Something Fishy, a novel by P.G. Wodehouse
- "Something Fishy" (The Honeymooners), an episode of The Honeymooners
- Fishy Feline, an episode of Garfield and Friends
- " Fishies", a single by The Cat Empire
- Suspicion (emotion)
- Consistently agreeing with one specific person, ex. "Whatever Doc says I Fishy"
Usage examples of "fishy".
They would undoubtedly find that boxty was in every sense a wholly fishy dish.
Falernian white to accompany the fishier, more nibbly first course, a superb Chian red to accompany the meaty, more substantial main course, and a sweetish, slightly effervescent white wine from Alba Fucentia to accompany the desserts and cheeses which formed the third, final course.
Colonel Jason Fikes could see right away that something was fishy about the town.
Mermaydes, the vpper parts of them of a humayne shape, and that vnder the nauell like a Fyshe, their one hande vp, and the other belowe on the Garlande, their scalye tayles extending to the nethermost corners of the Triangle, vppon the top of the Coronice hauing at theyr extreeme partes theyr fishy winges or finnes.
Notification of arrivals on Nexal are always checked out, and yours was obviously fishy.
It had a simple smell, the sea, but at the same time it smelled immense and unique, so much so that Grenouille hesitated to dissect the odours into fishy, salty, watery, seaweedy, fresh-airy, and so on.
Doing a small, dancing turn, Timmer breathed deeply of the scent of fresh water lakeraw with a slightly fishy smell.
His fishy eyes rolled fearfully and his wheezing voice was hoarse with a desperate appeal.
After a momentary attempt to understand me--I remember wondering if the fungus had made my eyes as fishy as his--he set off upon some observations on his own account.
Miss Margland was preparing him a reproachful reception, but was so much offended by the fishy smell which he brought into the room, that she had immediate recourse to her salts, and besought him to stand out of her way.
Sturgeon leaned across his desk and fixed Bruno and Boots with his best fishy stare.
He had lived in Dock Street, Hull, and Brigg imagined him growing up there with the fishy smells coming off the docks, and the mist, thin and horizontal, lying like resting ghosts along the street on mid-winter nights.
Five hundred million years ago, swimming in the primeval seas, there were fishy creatures called ostracoderms and placoderms, whose brains had recognizably the same major divisions as ours.
We do know that the pineal is a residuum of the single eye that our very remote sea-going ancestors had in the center of their fishy foreheads.
Once he was steady, he looked up to the deck of The Fishy Few, where all the crewmen including Captain Quain were lined up.