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Fishy vs Unfishy - What's the difference?

fishy | unfishy |

As adjectives the difference between fishy and unfishy

is that fishy is of, from, or similar to fish while unfishy is not fishy.

As a noun fishy

is diminutive of lang=en.

fishy

English

Noun

(fishies)
  • (childish)

    • Alternative forms

    * fishie

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of, from, or similar to fish.
  • Suspicious; inspiring doubt.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=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.}}

    Derived terms

    * smell fishy

    unfishy

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not fishy.
  • * 2005 , Richard Dawkins, Yan Wong, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
    • A fish can change in evolutionary time to whatever unfishy shape is required for its way of life.