fishie

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A form of fish — A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.

OriginEnglish fish ← Middle English fisch ← Old English fisċ →
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Meanings

nounfishie (plural fishies)

plural fishies · alternative fishy

  1. childishdiminutiveDiminutive of fish; alternative spelling of fishy.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*péysks
  2. Proto-Germanic*fiskaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*fisk
  4. Old Englishfisċ
  5. Middle Englishfisch
  6. Englishfish
  7. Englishfishie

From fish + -ie.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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