"fishy" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈfɪʃi/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-fishy.ogg [General-American], en-au-fishy.ogg [Australia] Forms: fishier [comparative], fishiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪʃi Etymology: From Middle English fishi, fischey, equivalent to fish + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|fishi}} Middle English fishi, {{m|enm|fischey}} fischey, {{suffix|en|fish|-y}} fish + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} fishy (comparative fishier, superlative fishiest)
  1. Of, from, or similar to fish. Synonyms: fishlike, fishly, ichthyic, piscine, fishen Translations (of, from, or similar to fish): рибен (riben) (Bulgarian), рибешки (ribeški) (Bulgarian), (Chinese Mandarin), (yú) (Chinese Mandarin), (xīng) (Chinese Mandarin), rybí (Czech), fiskeagtig (Danish), visachtig (Dutch), kalan (Finnish), kalamainen (Finnish), kalaisa (Finnish), de poisson (French), ichthyique (French), fischig (German), Fisch- (German), di pesce (Italian), 魚の (sakana no) (alt: さかなの) (Japanese), ри́бен (ríben) (Macedonian), ри́бин (ríbin) (Macedonian), ри́бји (ríbji) (Macedonian), rybi (Polish), de peixe (Portuguese), ры́бий (rýbij) (Russian), ры́бный (rýbnyj) (Russian), рыбоподо́бный (rybopodóbnyj) (english: similar to fish) (Russian), fiskaktig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-fishy-en-adj-3RddZ9xi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 3 34 39 Disambiguation of 'of, from, or similar to fish': 99 0 1
  2. (figurative) Suspicious; inspiring doubt. Tags: figuratively Translations (suspicious; inspiring doubt): подозрителен (podozritelen) (Bulgarian), съмнителен (sǎmnitelen) (Bulgarian), sospitós (Catalan), 可疑 (kéyí) (Chinese Mandarin), lusket (Danish), verdacht (Dutch), epäilyttävä (Finnish), mätä (Finnish), suspect (French), sospeitoso [masculine] (Galician), anrüchig (German), verdächtig (German), bűzlik (Hungarian), sospettoso (Italian), сомни́телен (somnítelen) (Macedonian), подозри́телен (podozrítelen) (Macedonian), podejrzany (Polish), śmierdzący (Polish), suspeito (Portuguese), подозри́тельный (podozrítelʹnyj) (Russian), сомни́тельный (somnítelʹnyj) (Russian), sospechoso (Spanish), skum (Swedish), lurig (Swedish), lurt (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-fishy-en-adj-uul7VT0h Disambiguation of 'suspicious; inspiring doubt': 1 98 1
  3. (LGBT slang) Of a drag queen: appearing very feminine and resembling a cisgender woman. Tags: slang Categories (topical): LGBT
    Sense id: en-fishy-en-adj-PWCnOTo0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 3 34 39 Topics: LGBT, lifestyle, sexuality
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fishie [noun] Derived forms: fishily, fishy queen, smell fishy Related terms: fishify

Noun

IPA: /ˈfɪʃi/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-fishy.ogg [General-American], en-au-fishy.ogg [Australia] Forms: fishies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪʃi Etymology: From Middle English fishi, fischey, equivalent to fish + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|fishi}} Middle English fishi, {{m|enm|fischey}} fischey, {{suffix|en|fish|-y}} fish + -y Head templates: {{en-noun}} fishy (plural fishies)
  1. (childish) Diminutive of fish. Tags: childish, diminutive, form-of Form of: fish Categories (lifeform): Fish Synonyms: fishy wishy Translations (little fish): ры́бка (rýbka) [feminine] (Belarusian), ри́бка (ríbka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 小魚 (Chinese Mandarin), 小鱼 (xiǎoyú) (Chinese Mandarin), rybička [feminine] (Czech), småfisk [common-gender] (Danish), visje [neuter] (Dutch), fiŝeto (Esperanto), pikkukala (Finnish), sintti (Finnish), kalanen (Finnish), petit poisson [masculine] (French), peixiño [masculine] (Galician), Fischlein [neuter] (German), Fischchen [neuter] (German), ψαράκι (psaráki) [neuter] (Greek), halacska (Hungarian), 小魚 (kozakana) (alt: こざかな) (Japanese), rybka [feminine] (Lower Sorbian), småfisk (Norwegian Bokmål), rybka [feminine] (Polish), peixinho [masculine] (Portuguese), peștișor [masculine] (Romanian), ры́бка (rýbka) [feminine] (Russian), рыбёшка (rybjóška) [feminine] (Russian), рибица [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ribica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), rybka [feminine] (Slovak), pececito [masculine] (Spanish), pescadito [masculine] (Spanish), småfisk [common-gender] (Swedish), firre [common-gender] (Swedish), ри́бка (rýbka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-fishy-en-noun-yEhFX1p4 Disambiguation of Fish: 35 1 8 57 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 3 34 39 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 23 4 18 55 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 28 8 21 43
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fishie [noun]

Inflected forms

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          "text": "What is that fishy odor?",
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          "ref": "1722, Oppian, [William Diaper and John Jones, transl.], “The Fourth Book of Oppian’s Halieuticks”, in Oppian’s Halieuticks: Of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients in V. Books. Translated from the Greek, with an Account of Oppian’s Life and Writings, and a Catalogue of His Fishes, Oxford: Printed at the Theater, →OCLC, page 172, lines 589–594",
          "text": "The ſwifteſt Ship beneath with ſudden Chains / In mid Career the fiſhy Bank detains. / The Wind all uſeleſs in the Canvas roars, / In vain the Sailors tug the ſticking Oars. / Fixt as a Rock the ſteady Throng abides; / The Ship as anchor'd in her Harbour rides.",
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          "text": "[William] Dampier. The Fleſh of both young and old is lean and black, yet very good Meat, taſting neither fiſhy nor unſavoury: A Diſh of Flamingo's Tongues being fit for a Prince's Table. They are large, having a large Knob of Fat at the Root, which is an excellent Bit.",
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          "text": "Few eyes have escaped the pictures of mermaids; that is, according to Horace's monster, with a woman's head above, and fishy extremity below; and these are conceived to answer the shape of the ancient sirens that attempted upon Ulysses. Which notwithstanding were of another description, containing no fishy composure, but made up of man and bird: […]",
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          "ref": "1973, Matt Braun, chapter 5, in El Paso, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Paperbacks; reprinted New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Paperbacks, July 1999, page 236",
          "text": "There was something more to this than met the eye, and he had the distinct feeling that the marshal had just snookered him into a corner. But he couldn't very well refuse, and it would look fishy if he demanded they march now."
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          "ref": "2014, Todd Kachinski Kottmeier, Steve Hammond, “Mother’s Pretty Dress”, in DRAG411’s Official Drag Handbook, 4th edition, [s.l.]: BecHavn Publishing, page 46",
          "text": "One day I dressed up all out fishy to go to my mother's place. I knocked and started walking in past her. She was like 'Can I help you?' I said, 'Ma?' and she was like OMG! She actually thought I was one of her boyfriend's hoochie [mamas].",
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          "text": "[William] Dampier. The Fleſh of both young and old is lean and black, yet very good Meat, taſting neither fiſhy nor unſavoury: A Diſh of Flamingo's Tongues being fit for a Prince's Table. They are large, having a large Knob of Fat at the Root, which is an excellent Bit.",
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "de poisson"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "ichthyique"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "fischig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "Fisch-"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "di pesce"
    },
    {
      "alt": "さかなの",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sakana no",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "魚の"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ríben",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "ри́бен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ríbin",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "ри́бин"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ríbji",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "ри́бји"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "rybi"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "de peixe"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rýbij",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "ры́бий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rýbnyj",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "ры́бный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "similar to fish",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rybopodóbnyj",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "рыбоподо́бный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "fiskaktig"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "podozritelen",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "подозрителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎmnitelen",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "съмнителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "sospitós"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kéyí",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "可疑"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "lusket"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "verdacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "epäilyttävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "mätä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "suspect"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sospeitoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "anrüchig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "verdächtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "bűzlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "sospettoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "somnítelen",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "сомни́телен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "podozrítelen",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "подозри́телен"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "podejrzany"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "śmierdzący"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "suspeito"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podozrítelʹnyj",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "подозри́тельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "somnítelʹnyj",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "сомни́тельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "sospechoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "skum"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "lurig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "lurt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fishy"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms suffixed with -y",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪʃi",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪʃi/2 syllables",
    "en:Fish"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "fishi"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English fishi",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "fischey"
      },
      "expansion": "fischey",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fish",
        "3": "-y"
      },
      "expansion": "fish + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English fishi, fischey, equivalent to fish + -y.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fishies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fishy (plural fishies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English childish terms",
        "English diminutive nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1846, “[Lullabies.] CCLXXVIII. [When the Boat Comes In.]”, in James Orchard Halliwell, editor, The Nursery Rhymes of England, Collected Chiefly from Oral Tradition, 4th edition, London: John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho Square, →OCLC, page 133",
          "text": "You shall have a fishy / In a little dishy; / You shall have a fishy / When the boat comes in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, April V. Costa, Fishies and Froggies in the Drain, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse",
          "text": "When Sachie got out of the tub and got her baby out of the tub her mom had her talk down the drain to the fishies and froggies. […] \"Are you ready fishies? Are you ready froggies?\" Both Sachie and mommy asked together. \"One, two, three\" they pulled out the plug. And they watched the water go down the drain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 May 19, Patricia Averill, “I Wish I were a Little—: Open Ended Songs”, in Camp Songs, Folk Songs, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 304",
          "text": "I wish I were a fishy in the sea— / I wish I were a fishy in the sea— / I'd go swimming in the nudie without my bathing suity / Oh, I wish I were a fishy in the sea",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "fish"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Diminutive of fish."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "childish",
          "childish"
        ],
        [
          "fish",
          "fish#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(childish) Diminutive of fish."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fishy wishy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "childish",
        "diminutive",
        "form-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪʃi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪʃi"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-fishy.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2d/En-us-fishy.ogg/En-us-fishy.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/En-us-fishy.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (GA)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-fishy.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/En-au-fishy.ogg/En-au-fishy.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/En-au-fishy.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "fishie"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "rýbka",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ры́бка"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ríbka",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ри́бка"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "小魚"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiǎoyú",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "小鱼"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rybička"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "småfisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "visje"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "fiŝeto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "pikkukala"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "sintti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "kalanen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "petit poisson"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "peixiño"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Fischlein"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Fischchen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "psaráki",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ψαράκι"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "halacska"
    },
    {
      "alt": "こざかな",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kozakana",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "小魚"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "småfisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rybka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "peixinho"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "peștișor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rýbka",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ры́бка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rybjóška",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "рыбёшка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "рибица"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ribica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rybka"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rybka"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pececito"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pescadito"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "småfisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "firre"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "rýbka",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ри́бка"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fishy"
}

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