Fishy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fishy \Fish"y\, a.
     1. Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or
        taste of fish; abounding in fish. --Pope.
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     2. Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish;


        improbable; also, rank or foul. [Colloq.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fishy
       adj : 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" [syn: {funny},
              {queer}, {shady}, {suspect}, {suspicious}]
       [also: {fishiest}, {fishier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  89 Moby Thesaurus words for "fishy":
     ambiguous, amoral, beguiling, blank, catchy, conscienceless,
     corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, deadpan, deceiving,
     deceptive, delusive, delusory, devious, dishonest, dishonorable,
     doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, eellike, empty, equivocal,
     evasive, expressionless, fallacious, false, felonious, fraudulent,
     funny, glassy, hallucinatory, ill-got, ill-gotten, illusive,
     illusory, immoral, impassive, implausible, improbable, indirect,
     inexpressive, insidious, misleading, not kosher, odd, peculiar,
     piscatorial, piscatory, pisciform, piscine, poker-faced,
     problematic, queer, questionable, rotten, selachian, shady,
     shameless, sharkish, shifty, sinister, slippery, strange, suspect,
     suspicious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, uncertain, unconscienced,
     unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical,
     unexpressive, unlikely, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous,
     unstraightforward, vacant, without remorse, without shame,
     wooden