Fishy

Definition: Fishy

Fishy

Adjective

1. (informal) 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fishy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms: Fishy

Animal

Equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory, piscatorial; molluscous, vermicular; gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.

Improbity

Perfidy; perfidiousness; Adjective: treachery, double dealing; unfairness; Adjective: knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor; (flattery).

False-hearted, disingenuous; unfair, one-sided; double, double-hearted, double-tongued, double-faced; timeserving, crooked, tortuous,insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery; fishy; perfidious, treacherous, perjured.

Crosswords: Fishy

There's something fishy going on here, and I don't think it's the chicken (Always; writing credit: Chandler Sprague; David Boehm)

But all we've got is a fishy. (The Shiny Show; writing credit: Chris Ellis)

Fishy on a dishy rhymes (The Shiny Show; writing credit: Chris Ellis)

A Fishy Story (1962)

Fishy Tales (1937)

Alice's Fishy Story (1924)

A Fishy Story (1920)

Fishy (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Reel Fishy Story (reference)

• Fishy Business (Powerpuff Girls, No 9) (reference)

• Fishy Business: Salmon, Biology, and the Social Construction of Nature (Animals, Culture, and Society) (reference)

• Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy (Junie B. Jones 12, paper) (reference)

• Monsieur Thermidor: A Fantastic Fishy Tale (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• A Fishy Story (reference)

• Fishy Tale (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Something's Fishy at Camp Wiga (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "fishy": fishy business ♦ fishy eyes ♦ it smells fishy. Additional references.

Beginning with "fishy": fishy-smelling.

Ending with "fishy": non-fishy.

Albanian

si peshk, plot peshq (finny), pa shprehje (inanimate), i peshkut (piscine), i dyshimtë (dingy, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, left handed, misgiving, moot, precarious, problematic, queer, suspect, suspicious, unassured, uncertain, unreliable, wildcat). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مريب (doubtful, dubious, dubitable, equivocal, jack, problematic, queer, questionable, suspicious), ‏مشكوك فيه (doubtful, dubious, dubitable, equivocal, questionable, suspicious), ‏مشكوك بصحته, ‏مشبوه (doubtful, dubious, dubitable, equivocal, suspect, suspected, suspicious, under suspicion), ‏سمكي الرائحة, ‏سمكي (finny). (various references)

Bulgarian 

състоящ се от риба, съмнителен (alleged, ambiguous, amphibious, dingy, disputable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fly-by-night, hedge, hole-and-corner, indeterminate, moot, off beat, phoney, precarious, problematic, queer, questionable, screwy, seedy, shady, shaky, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unsure, vague), рибешки, рибен (piscatory, piscine), риби, с вкус и миризма на риба, непочтен (discreditable, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, foul, oblique, shady, sharp, twisty, underhand), мътен (cloudy, dim, dreggy, feculent, muddy, roily, sludgy, thick, turbid, unclear), пълен с риба. (various references)

Chinese 

腥 , 不是味兒 (a bit off, amiss, be upset, feel bad, not quite right, not the right flavor, queer), 可疑 (Questionable, suspicious). (various references)

Czech

rybí, podezřelý (phoney, phony, queer, shady, suspect, suspicious). (various references)

Danish

fiskesmag (fishy flavour), fiskeagtig lugt og smag (fishy flavour). (various references)

Dutch

vissige smaak (fishy flavour), visachtige geur en smaak (fishy flavour). (various references)

Finnish

kelju (crooked, unpleasant). (various references)

French

louche, douteux, de poisson, avec beaucoup de poisson. (various references)

German

trüb (bleak, bleary, cheerless, cloudy, dim, drab, dull, filmy, gloomy, grey, grim, lackluster, lacklustre, misty, muddily, muddy, murky, somber, somberly, sombre, turbid, turbidly). (various references)

Greek 

ιχθυώδησ, απίθανοσ (improbable, unlikely), τερατολογικόσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

דגי. (various references)

Hungarian

halszerű (ichthyoid), hal-, gyanús (bung, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, liable to suspicion, queer, shady, suspect, suspicion, suspicious, to give rise to suspicion). (various references)

Italian

sospetto,equivoco, pescoso (abounding in fish), equivoco (ambiguity, ambiguous, dubious, equivocal, equivocalness, equivocation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, shady, shifty, underhand), di pesce. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

胡乱 (suspicious looking). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うろん (suspicious looking). (various references)

Korean 

수상한 (Questionable). (various references)

Manx

eeastoil (abounding in fish). (various references)

Pig Latin

ishyfay.(various references)

Portuguese

suspeito (doubtful, equivocal, queer, questionable, shady, spotted, suspect, suspicious), piscoso (finny), improvável (off, unlikely), equívoco (equivocal, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misconception, misjudgement, mistake, misunderstanding, oversight, questionable, quibble, quirk, slip-up, suspicious), duvidoso (controversial, disputable, doubtful, doubting, dubious, questionable, shaky, suspicious, unassured, uncertain, unreliable, unsure, untrustworthy). (various references)

Romanian

suspect (doubtful, doubtful person, dubious, equivocal, queer, questionable, shady, suspect, suspicious, suspiciously), dubios (doubtful, dubious, equivocal, questionable, shady, suspicious, uncertain), de peşte (finny), cu miros de peşte, cu gust de peşte, care miroase urât (stinker), ca de peşte. (various references)

Russian 

рыбный (piscine). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sumnjiv (doubtful, questionable, shady, suspect, suspicious), sličan ribi, bezizrazan (blank, deadpan, dull, glassy, glazy, unmeaning). (various references)

Spanish

sospechoso (dubious, leery, shady, shifty, suspect, suspicious, under a cloud), de pescado, como de pez. (various references)

Swedish

fisklik, fiskaktig, fisk- (piscine), tvivelaktig (doubtful, dubious, dubitable, equivocal, exceptionable, iffy, moot, problematic, questionable, shady), slö (bovine, drowsy, dull, fat-witted, indolent, inert, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, obtuse, sappy, slack, stagnant, supine), skum (dim, dimmish, dusky, foam, froth, funny, head, phoney, queer, scum, shady, spume, yeast), otrolig (far fetched, improbable, incredible, tall, unbelievable, uncanny, unlikely), misstänkt (suspect, suspected, suspicious), livlös (dead, in the doldrums, inanimate, insensate, insentient, lifeless). (various references)

Thai

น่าสงสัย (doubting, queer, ropey, sceptical, shady, suspect, suspicious), กลิ่นหรือรสชาติคล้ายปลา. (various references)

Turkish

bityeniği olan, balık kokulu, balık gibi (ichthyoid), balık dolu, şüpheli (chancy, contestable, creaky, debatable, discredited, disputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, equivocal, funny, funny peculiar, hazardous, indecisive, indefinable, murky, nebulous, precarious, problematic, problematical, sceptical, screwy, shadowy, shady, shaky, skeptical, speculative, suspect, suspenseful, suspicious, umbrageous, uncertain, unconvincing). (various references)

Ukrainian

риб'ячий, рибний (piscine). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ám muội (fishily). (various references)

Misspellings

"Fishy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fahmy, Fathy, fesh, Feshie, Fidh, fieh, Filshie, Finschia, fisch, fishe, fishey, fishie, fishs, fisky, fissh, fissy, fisy, Fithyan, flshy, Forsshey, Fosh, fushy, Ishi, ishy, Jishi, Oishi, wishy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fish.

-2 letters: his, ifs, shy.

-3 letters: hi, if, is, sh, si.

+1 letter: shifty.

+2 letters: fishery, fisheye, fishily, fishway, fogyish.

+3 letters: crayfish, dayshift, elfishly, fiftyish, fisheyes, fishways, flashily, fortyish, grayfish, ladyfish, oafishly, offishly, shiftily.

+4 letters: dayshifts, fairishly, foolishly, foppishly, forsythia, hayfields, jellyfish, kaffiyehs, keffiyehs, platyfish, raffishly, selfishly, speechify, wishfully, wolfishly.

+5 letters: crayfishes, dwarfishly, feverishly, fiendishly, flyweights, forsythias, freakishly, grayfishes, highflyers, housewifey, hydrofoils, ladyfishes, saccharify, sniffishly.