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fishly

adj

Etymology

From fish + -ly.

  1. inherited from *peysk-✻ — “fish”
  2. inherited from *fiskaz✻ — “fish”
  3. inherited from *fisk✻
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish”
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. suffixed as fishly — “fish + ly”

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or pertaining to fishes

    Of, relating to, characteristic of, or pertaining to fishes; piscine.

    • […] which fowles "would strike at our men as they were aloft: "some of them wee killed and eat: they seemed-" to us very good, only tasted somewhat fishly.
    • Twice the cork bobbed prophecies of a fishly investigation. Twice the angler raised the squirming bait; but each time minus the scaly victim.
    • At this the Fish did titter a fishly Titter, and Bit!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fishly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA