"fishy" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈfɪʃi/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-fishy.ogg , en-au-fishy.ogg 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, {{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), rybí (Slovak), rybací (Slovak), fiskaktig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-fishy-en-adj-3RddZ9xi Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 48 5 3 44 Disambiguation of 'of, from, or similar to fish': 99 0 0
  2. (figurative) Suspicious; inspiring doubt. Tags: figuratively Synonyms: dodgy, dubious, iffy 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 99 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 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 , en-au-fishy.ogg Forms: fishies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪʃi Etymology: From Middle English fishi, fischey, equivalent to fish + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|fishi}} Middle English fishi, {{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-IlNIf6TL Disambiguation of Fish: 32 1 0 67 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Lower Sorbian translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 5 3 56 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 31 11 4 54 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 48 5 3 44 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 33 3 3 60 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 3 1 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Belarusian translations: 29 8 7 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 28 8 9 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 28 8 7 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 27 7 15 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 31 4 4 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 29 8 4 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 30 5 2 63 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 33 7 7 53 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 28 7 6 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 29 8 7 56 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 34 8 5 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 35 7 4 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 30 7 8 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 30 5 2 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 30 5 2 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Lower Sorbian translations: 26 5 3 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 30 8 7 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 30 7 6 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 29 9 8 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 32 9 8 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 28 7 7 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 29 8 7 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 30 5 2 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 29 8 7 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 29 8 7 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 25 5 2 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 28 7 7 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 28 8 7 57
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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          "ref": "1731, “[The Natural History of the Flamingo, &c. by Dr. J. Douglas, N. 350. p. 523.]”, in Henry Jones, editor, The Philosophical Transactions (from the Year 1700, to the Year 1720.) Abridg’d, and Dispos’d under General Heads, 2nd edition, volume V, part I (Zoology, &c. Anatomy, Physic, Chemistry), London: Printed for J. and J. Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, chap. I (Zoology, and the Anatomy of Animals), page 69:",
          "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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          "ref": "1852, Thomas Browne, “Of the Pictures of Mermaids, Unicorns, and some Others”, in Simon Wilkin, editor, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, volumes II (Containing the Three Last Books of Vulgar Errors, Religio Medici, and the Garden of Cyrus), London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, →OCLC, book V ([Pseudodoxia Epidemica.] The Particular Part Continued. Of Many Things Questionable as They are Commonly Described in Pictures; of Many Popular Customs, etc.), pages 59–61:",
          "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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          "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
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          "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
          "word": "di pesce"
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          "alt": "さかなの",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sakana no",
          "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
          "word": "魚の"
        },
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          "word": "ри́бен"
        },
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          "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
          "word": "de peixe"
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          "word": "ры́бий"
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          "english": "similar to fish",
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          "roman": "rybopodóbnyj",
          "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
          "word": "рыбоподо́бный"
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          "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
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          "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
          "word": "rybací"
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          "code": "sv",
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          "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
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          "text": "I don't trust him; his claims seem fishy to me.",
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          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.",
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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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        "(figurative) Suspicious; inspiring doubt."
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          "word": "iffy"
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          "roman": "podozritelen",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "подозрителен"
        },
        {
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "sǎmnitelen",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "съмнителен"
        },
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "sospitós"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "kéyí",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "可疑"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "lusket"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "verdacht"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "epäilyttävä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "mätä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "suspect"
        },
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          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "sospeitoso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "anrüchig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "verdächtig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "bűzlik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "sospettoso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "somnítelen",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "сомни́телен"
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          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "podozrítelen",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "подозри́телен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "podejrzany"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "śmierdzący"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "suspeito"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "podozrítelʹnyj",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "подозри́тельный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "somnítelʹnyj",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "сомни́тельный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "sospechoso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
          "word": "skum"
        },
        {
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          "ref": "1731, “[The Natural History of the Flamingo, &c. by Dr. J. Douglas, N. 350. p. 523.]”, in Henry Jones, editor, The Philosophical Transactions (from the Year 1700, to the Year 1720.) Abridg’d, and Dispos’d under General Heads, 2nd edition, volume V, part I (Zoology, &c. Anatomy, Physic, Chemistry), London: Printed for J. and J. Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, chap. I (Zoology, and the Anatomy of Animals), page 69:",
          "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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        },
        {
          "ref": "1852, Thomas Browne, “Of the Pictures of Mermaids, Unicorns, and some Others”, in Simon Wilkin, editor, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, volumes II (Containing the Three Last Books of Vulgar Errors, Religio Medici, and the Garden of Cyrus), London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, →OCLC, book V ([Pseudodoxia Epidemica.] The Particular Part Continued. Of Many Things Questionable as They are Commonly Described in Pictures; of Many Popular Customs, etc.), pages 59–61:",
          "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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        }
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        "Of, from, or similar to fish."
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          "fish",
          "fish"
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        {
          "text": "I don't trust him; his claims seem fishy to me.",
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          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.",
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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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        "Suspicious; inspiring doubt."
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        "(figurative) Suspicious; inspiring doubt."
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          "word": "iffy"
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    },
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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, →ISBN, 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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        "Of a drag queen: appearing very feminine and resembling a cisgender woman."
      ],
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        [
          "LGBT",
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          "drag queen",
          "drag queen"
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          "feminine",
          "feminine"
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          "cisgender",
          "cisgender"
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        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
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      ],
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        "(LGBT slang) Of a drag queen: appearing very feminine and resembling a cisgender woman."
      ],
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        "slang"
      ],
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        "LGBT",
        "lifestyle",
        "sexuality"
      ]
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        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
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      "tags": [
        "noun"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "riben",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "рибен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ribeški",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "рибешки"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "魚"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yú",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "鱼"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xīng",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "腥"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "rybí"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "fiskeagtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "visachtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "kalan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "kalamainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "kalaisa"
    },
    {
      "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",
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      "roman": "rybopodóbnyj",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "рыбоподо́бный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "rybí"
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    {
      "code": "sk",
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      "sense": "of, from, or similar to fish",
      "word": "rybací"
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    {
      "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"
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      "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",
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      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "подозри́телен"
    },
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      "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"
    },
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      "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",
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      "sense": "suspicious; inspiring doubt",
      "word": "lurt"
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    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
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    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
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    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
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    "Terms with Romanian translations",
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          "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.",
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          "ref": "2013, April V. Costa, Fishies and Froggies in the Drain, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:",
          "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.",
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          "ref": "2014 May 19, Patricia Averill, “I Wish I were a Little—: Open Ended Songs”, in Camp Songs, Folk Songs, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, 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—",
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      "roman": "rýbka",
      "sense": "little fish",
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "ры́бка"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ríbka",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "ри́бка"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "小魚"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiǎoyú",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "小鱼"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rybička"
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    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "little fish",
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      "word": "småfisk"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "little fish",
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "fiŝeto"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "pikkukala"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "sintti"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "word": "kalanen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "petit poisson"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "little fish",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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    },
    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "little fish",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "little fish",
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      "alt": "こざかな",
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      "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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