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Literally, it means tasting or smelling like fish. But in everyday, informal talk, it much more often means something feels dishonest or suspicious, like a detail doesn't add up - 'that story sounds fishy.'
(字面)有魚腥味的；(口語)可疑的、怪怪的
組成fish + -y (adjective ending, meaning 'having the quality of')
同家族的字
- fishthe base word
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fishyadj/ˈfɪʃi/
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Of, from, or similar to fish.
- What is that fishy odor?
- The ſwifteſt Ship beneath with ſudden Chains / In mid Career the fiſhy Bank detains. / The Wind all uſeleſs in the Canvas roars, / In vain the Sailors tug the ſticking Oars. / Fixt as a Rock the ſteady Throng abides; / The Ship as anchor'd in her Harbour rides.
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Suspicious; inspiring doubt.
- I don't trust him; his claims seem fishy to me.
- Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
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Of a drag queen or a trans woman: appearing very feminine and resembling a cisgender woman.
- One day I dressed up all out fishy to go to my mother's place. I knocked and started walking in past her. She was like 'Can I help you?' I said, 'Ma?' and she was like OMG! She actually thought I was one of her boyfriend's hoochie [mamas].
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。