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   fish

   /fɪʃ/

   noun

   • 1. a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water: "the huge lakes are now devoid of fish"
   • ▪ the flesh of fish as food: "a dinner of meat, dried fish, and bread"
   • ▪ the zodiacal sign or constellation Pisces.
   • ▪ used in names of invertebrate animals living wholly in water, e.g. cuttlefish, shellfish, jellyfish.
   • ▪ a torpedo. informal
   • 2. a person who is strange in a specified way: informal British "he is generally thought to be a bit of a cold fish"

   verb

   • 1. catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line: "he was fishing for pike" Similar go fishinganglecasttrawl
   • ▪ catch or try to catch fish in (a particular body of water): "many of the lochs we used to fish are now affected by forestry"
   • 2. search by groping or feeling for something concealed: "he fished for his registration certificate and held it up to the policeman's torch" Similar searchdelvelookhuntcast aboutcast roundcast aroundgropeferret (about)ferret (around)root aboutroot aroundrummage (about)rummage (round)rummage (around)scrabblefumbleseeklook high and low
   • ▪ try subtly or deviously to elicit a response or some information from someone: "I was not fishing for compliments" Similar try to getseek to obtainsolicitmake a bidangleaimcast aboutcast roundcast aroundhopelookinformal:be after
   • ▪ pull or take something out of water or a receptacle: "the body of a woman had been fished out of the river"

   Word Origin Old Englishfisc (as a noun denoting any animal living exclusively in water), fiscian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vis, vissen and German Fisch, fischen.

   Derivatives

   • 1. fishable adjective
   • 2. fishlike adjective

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