fish

Meaning

Noun

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.

Verb

1. To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
2. To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
3. To use as bait when fishing.
4. To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
5. To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
6. Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
7. To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
8. To hoist the flukes of.

Concepts

fish

catch fish

angle

meat

ray

go fishing

fishy

fishing

net

hunt

river fish

animal

tadpole

trawl

salmon

generic

flathead goby

dish

piscine

piscatorial

piscatory

oyster

chip

counter

fish meat

clamp

fastening

pisces

bird

spawner

seahorse

pufferfish

odor

smell

scale

stonefish

beg

catch

snare

husk

seize

dredge

allure

angle for

entice

ransack

Buddha

Rama

dwarf

hog

namely

tortoise

ant

wine

silvery scale

extract

reap

animals

birds

food

search

fumble

grope

touch

ostracean

fresh fish

wet fish

towed fish

towfish

brace

fellow

person

sucker

torpedo

squib

blue-spotted stingray

lemon shark

shark

giant salmon catfish

mottled moray

painted moray

shark ray

eagle ray

manta ray

spotted eagle ray

tiger shark

whale shark

leopard shark

pollywog

hook

troll

seine

hunger

barracuda

large fish

fish with a line

flying fish

sturgeon

minnow

clownfish

sawfish

smoked meat

blood

dairy

boiled

tail of animal

turtle

groupers

puffers

grouper

lionfish

orange-spine unicorn fish

wrasses

yellow stripe goatfish

fisherman

little

trout

basket

willy

invite

panhandle

pry

snoop

very small

insect

young of an animal

rainbow fish

quail

ants

greenling

grunter

bonito

codfish

goby

croaker

yellowtail

bob

chicken

etc.

catfish

ask

request

shellfish

fin

trap

barramundi

dried

living

flounder

butterflies

e.g.

i.e.

materials

radioactive dust

water

fafrotskies

kebab

tomatoes

eat meat

etc

fruit

broth

soup

straw man

game

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɪʃ/

Etymology

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).