"fishly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fish + -ly.",
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      "form": "more fishly",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1699, Cowley, Cooke's Voyage:",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
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          "ref": "1916, Everybody's magazine:",
          "text": "Twice the cork bobbed prophecies of a fishly investigation. Twice the angler raised the squirming bait; but each time minus the scaly victim.",
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        {
          "ref": "1916, University of Michigan. College of Engineering, The Michigan technic:",
          "text": "At this the Fish did titter a fishly Titter, and Bit!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, John Arthur Thomson, Biology of the Seasons:",
          "text": "It is a personality of a fishly sort.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Einar Ingvald Haugen, Norwegian-American Historical Association, Immigrant idealist:",
          "text": "The perch, for example, regards the danger as exaggerated: all one needed was to exercise moderation, \"as a fishly virtue\"; \"it had bitten off many a bait without suffering any damage to its body.\"",
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          "ref": "2000, Piers Anthony, Vale of the Vole:",
          "text": "In due course they reached the far side of the Element of Water, gourd annex. The path lead through a translucent vertical wall, and there seemed to be no special challenge to passing through it, except for their fishly status.",
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          "ref": "2009, Jean Elizabeth Ward, Chinese Wonder Book:",
          "text": "\"In sooth, the fellow talks as if in earnest,\" remarked the king, after a moment's reflection, \"and though the request is, perhaps, the strangest to which I have ever listened, I really see no reason why I should not turn a fishly ear.\"",
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        "Of, relating to, characteristic of, or pertaining to fishes; piscine."
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        {
          "word": "fishlike"
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        {
          "word": "fishy"
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        {
          "word": "ichthyic"
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        {
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  "etymology_text": "From fish + -ly.",
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          "ref": "1699, Cowley, Cooke's Voyage:",
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        {
          "ref": "1916, Everybody's magazine:",
          "text": "Twice the cork bobbed prophecies of a fishly investigation. Twice the angler raised the squirming bait; but each time minus the scaly victim.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, University of Michigan. College of Engineering, The Michigan technic:",
          "text": "At this the Fish did titter a fishly Titter, and Bit!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, John Arthur Thomson, Biology of the Seasons:",
          "text": "It is a personality of a fishly sort.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1989, Einar Ingvald Haugen, Norwegian-American Historical Association, Immigrant idealist:",
          "text": "The perch, for example, regards the danger as exaggerated: all one needed was to exercise moderation, \"as a fishly virtue\"; \"it had bitten off many a bait without suffering any damage to its body.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Piers Anthony, Vale of the Vole:",
          "text": "In due course they reached the far side of the Element of Water, gourd annex. The path lead through a translucent vertical wall, and there seemed to be no special challenge to passing through it, except for their fishly status.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Jean Elizabeth Ward, Chinese Wonder Book:",
          "text": "\"In sooth, the fellow talks as if in earnest,\" remarked the king, after a moment's reflection, \"and though the request is, perhaps, the strangest to which I have ever listened, I really see no reason why I should not turn a fishly ear.\"",
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        "Of, relating to, characteristic of, or pertaining to fishes; piscine."
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    {
      "word": "fishlike"
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    {
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      "word": "piscine"
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