fish

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Meaning

1. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
2. Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
3. Cod; codfish.
4. The flesh of the fish used as food.
5. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
6. (slang) A woman.
7. (slang) An easy victim for swindling.
8. (slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
9. A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
10. A purchase used to fish the anchor.
11. (slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
12. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
13. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
14. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
15. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
16. The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
17. (slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
18. A male homosexual; a gay man.

catch fish

go fishing

river fish

flathead goby

pisces

fish meat

fish with a line

large fish

pollywog

tail of animal

very small

rainbow fish

silvery scale

radioactive dust

blue-spotted stingray

yellow stripe goatfish

giant salmon catfish

wet fish

wrasses

towfish

towed fish

young of an animal

barramundi

spotted eagle ray

leopard shark

shark ray

mottled moray

painted moray

eat meat

orange-spine unicorn fish

fresh fish

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɪʃ/

From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”) (compare West Frisian fisk, Dutch vis, German Fisch, Danish fisk, Norwegian fisk, Swedish fisk, Icelandic fiskur), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”) (compare Irish iasc, Latin piscis).