fishish

comparative more fishish · superlative most fishish

1. rareResembling a fish; fishy.

   Fish, fish, fish, / I feel fishish.

   2003, Frederick Seidel, French Polynesia

   3 more examples

   Tietjens was gazing with large, fishish eyes at the caviare before her.

   1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 92

   ‘Can you describe it?’ ‘A bit chickenish, a bit fishish.’

   2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania

   ‘Hey, Rotho!’ He called loudly out to a fishish man on the other side of the pub.

   2010, Matthew Tombs, Bleaker Street

   Synonyms: fishen, fishly, piscine, fishen, fishlike, fishly, fishy, ichthyic