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say it: FISH-ee
fishy is an adjective meaning "of or relating to or resembling fish". It carries 2 recorded senses.
of or relating to or resembling fish
“the soup had a fishy smell”
not as expected
“there was something fishy about the accident”
“up to some funny business”
“some definitely queer goings-on”
“a shady deal”
“her motives were suspect”
“suspicious behavior”
colloquialism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fishy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.