fishly

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fishly

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From fish + -ly.

adjective more fishly · most fishly

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.
Similar: fishlike, fishy, ichthyic, piscine, fishen, fishish, fishly

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@misc{fishly_2026,
  title = {fishly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fishly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}