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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FISH'Y, a.
1. Consisting of fish.
2. Inhabited by fish; as the fishy flood.
3. Having the qualities of fish; like fish; as a fishy form; a fishy taste or smell.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to or resembling fish; "the soup had a fishy smell"
2: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (fishier; -est) Date: 15th century 1. of or resembling fish especially in taste or odor 2. creating doubt or suspicion ; questionable

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (fishier, fishiest) 1 a smelling or tasting like fish. b like that of a fish. c (of an eye) dull, vacant-looking. d consisting of fish (a fishy repast). e joc. or poet. abounding in fish. 2 sl. of dubious character, questionable, suspect. Derivatives: fishily adv. fishiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fishy Fish"y, a. 1. Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish. --Pope. 2. Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul. [Colloq.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A fishy taste or smell reminds you of fish. ADJ 2. If you describe a situation as fishy, you feel that someone is not telling the truth or behaving completely honestly. (INFORMAL) There seems to be something fishy going on. = suspicious ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

ambiguous, amoral, beguiling, blank, catchy, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, deadpan, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, eellike, empty, equivocal, evasive, expressionless, fallacious, false, felonious, fraudulent, funny, glassy, hallucinatory, ill-got, ill-gotten, illusive, illusory, immoral, impassive, implausible, improbable, indirect, inexpressive, insidious, misleading, not kosher, odd, peculiar, piscatorial, piscatory, pisciform, piscine, poker-faced, problematic, queer, questionable, rotten, selachian, shady, shameless, sharkish, shifty, sinister, slippery, strange, suspect, suspicious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, uncertain, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unexpressive, unlikely, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, vacant, without remorse, without shame, wooden