fishkind

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noun

All fishes, considered as a group.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

fishkind1

nounfishkind (uncountable)

alternative fish-kind

  1. uncountableAll fishes, considered as a group.

    A workaday bird, you take it all in stride and don't pretend to the osprey's glory, scourge of fishkind, or the eagle's, lofty ravager of lesser mammals, but without undue fuss you get the job done.

    2017, Dan Liberthson, A Poetry of Birds
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    A single flirt of the tail, no more vigorous than those he had been used to giving with his legs, would send him whirling around and around in the water, for all the world like a living top; and when he wriggled his fins, ever so slightly, as he thought, he found himself sprawling on his back in a most ridiculous fashion for a dignified member of fishkind.

    1919, Norman Hinsdale Pitman, Chinese Wonder Book

Fishkind2

proper nounFishkind (plural Fishkinds)

plural Fishkinds

Origin

fishkind · noun

  1. Middle Englishfisshe kynde
  2. Englishfishkind

From Middle English fisshe kynde, fiscynn, equivalent to fish + -kind.

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Fishkind · proper noun

Variant of Fishkin.

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Chicago

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