Fishly

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, characteristic of, or pertaining to fishes; piscine.

    "[…] which fowles "would strike at our men as they were aloft: "some of them wee killed and eat: they seemed-" to us very good, only tasted somewhat fishly."

Example

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"[…] which fowles "would strike at our men as they were aloft: "some of them wee killed and eat: they seemed-" to us very good, only tasted somewhat fishly."

Etymology

From fish + -ly.

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