fishly
adjEtymology From fish + -ly.
1
Of, relating to, characteristic of, or pertaining to fishes; piscine.
- […] 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:
4 more examples
- At this the Fish did titter a fishly Titter, and Bit!1916, University of Michigan. College of Engineering, The Michigan technic:
- It is a personality of a fishly sort.1920, John Arthur Thomson, Biology of the Seasons:
- 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: