Fishy

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɪʃi/Rhymes: -ɪʃi

Full definition of fishy

Noun

1. (childish) Diminutive of fish

Alternative forms

• fishie

Adjective

1. Of, from, or similar to fish.
   What is that fishy odor?
2. Suspicious; inspiring doubt.
• 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 3, Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
3. I don't trust him; his claims seem fishy to me.

Derived terms

• smell fishy