fishly

comparative more fishly · superlative most fishly

1. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or pertaining to fishes; piscine.

   It is a personality of a fishly sort.

   1920, John Arthur Thomson, Biology of the Seasons

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   […] which fowles "would strike at our men as they were aloft: "some of them wee killed and eat: they seemed-" to us very good, only tasted somewhat fishly.

   1699, Cowley, Cooke's Voyage

   Twice the cork bobbed prophecies of a fishly investigation. Twice the angler raised the squirming bait; but each time minus the scaly victim.

   1916, Everybody's magazine

   At this the Fish did titter a fishly Titter, and Bit!

   1916, University of Michigan. College of Engineering, The Michigan technic

   The perch, for example, regards the danger as exaggerated: all one needed was to exercise moderation, "as a fishly virtue"; "it had bitten off many a bait without suffering any damage to its body."

   1989, Einar Ingvald Haugen, Norwegian-American Historical Association, Immigrant idealist

   In due course they reached the far side of the Element of Water, gourd annex. The path lead through a translucent vertical wall, and there seemed to be no special challenge to passing through it, except for their fishly status.

   2000, Piers Anthony, Vale of the Vole

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