fishinessn.
/ˈfɪʃɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈfɪʃinᵻs/ 1. The quality or fact of being fishy.
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the world > animals > fish > [noun] > state or condition of
fishiness1766
piscinity1865
fishhood1866
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 117 Its [sc. the bittern's] flesh has..nothing of the fishiness of that of the heron.
1783 W. Beckford Dreams iv. 26 I am not greatly surprised at the fishiness of their site.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxvi. 214 The fishiness..is no longer disagreeable.
2. figurative. ‘Shadiness’, questionableness. colloquial.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > crookedness > [noun] > and dubious
fishiness1919
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > shadiness or fishiness
shadiness1611
fishiness1919
1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xiv. 163 The extreme fishiness of Albert's sudden production of a cousin from America.
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n.1766- whilebeing
- whiled
- whileever
- whilemeal
- whilend
- whileness
- whilere
- whiles
- whiles thou might turn thy hand about
- well-tossed
- well-traded
- well-trained
- well-traveled
- well-travelled
- well-treated
- well-tricked
- well-tricked-out
- well-tried
- well-trimmed
- well-trod
- well-trodden
- well-trussed
- well-trussed-together
- well-trussed-up
- well-trusted