| 释义 |
fishiness|ˈfɪʃɪnɪs|
[f. as fishily adv. + -ness.]
1. The quality or fact of being fishy.
1766Pennant Zool. (1812) II. 17 Its [the bittern's] flesh has..nothing of the fishiness of that of the heron. 1834Beckford Italy I. 31 I am not greatly surprised at the fishyness of their site. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxvi. (1856) 214 The fishiness..is no longer disagreeable.
2. fig. ‘Shadiness’, questionableness. colloq.
1919Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xiv. 163 The extreme fishiness of Albert's sudden production of a cousin from America. |