Meaning of fishy in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

  Example: Salmon is a fish.

• Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

• The flesh of the fish used as food.

  Example: The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.

• A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.

• A woman.

• An easy victim for swindling.

• A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).

• A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.

• A purchase used to fish the anchor.

• A torpedo.

• A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:

• The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

noun

• A period of time spent fishing.

  Example: The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.

• An instance of seeking something.

  Example: Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.

noun

• A counter, used in various games.

adjective

• Of, from, or similar to fish.

  Example: What is that fishy odor?

• Suspicious; inspiring doubt.

  Example: I don't trust him; his claims seem fishy to me.

• Of drag queens: appearing feminine.