Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes with: -ɪʃi
Noun
- diminutive of fish
Alternative spellings
Adjective
- Of, from, or similar to fish.
- What is that fishy odor?
- Suspicious;
inspiring doubt.
- I don't trust him; his claims seem fishy to me.
Translations
of, from, or similar to fish
- Danish: fiskeagtig
- Polish: rybi
suspicious; inspiring doubt
- Danish: lusket
- Finnish: epäilyttävä
- German: anrüchig
- Polish: podejrzany , śmierdzący
Extensive Definition
Fishy may refer to
- Fish
- Something Fishy, a novel by PG Wodehouse
- Something Fishy (The Honeymooners), episode of The Honeymooners
- Fishy Feline, episode of Garfield and Friends
- Fishy, A flash game by XGenStudios
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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