Fishkind
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 All fishes, considered as a group. uncountable
"A single flirt of the tail, no more vigorous than those he had been used to giving with his legs, would send him whirling around and around in the water, for all the world like a living top; and when he wriggled his fins, ever so slightly, as he thought, he found himself sprawling on his back in a most ridiculous fashion for a dignified member of fishkind."
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"A single flirt of the tail, no more vigorous than those he had been used to giving with his legs, would send him whirling around and around in the water, for all the world like a living top; and when he wriggled his fins, ever so slightly, as he thought, he found himself sprawling on his back in a most ridiculous fashion for a dignified member of fishkind."
Etymology
From Middle English fisshe kynde, fiscynn, equivalent to fish + -kind.
Variant of Fishkin.
More for "fishkind"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.