fly-fish

1. 1.

   fish with flies as lures

   Synonymsflyfish

   Broaderangle

Questions about fly-fish

What does fly-fish mean?

fly-fish means "fish with flies as lures".

How many syllables are in fly-fish?

fly-fish has 2 syllables: fly--fish. The stress falls on "fish".

What is another word for fly-fish?

Close synonyms include flyfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fly-fish a common word?

fly-fish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.