Fishly
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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
More examples"[…] 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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