Fishy

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From Middle English fishi, fischey, equivalent to fish +‎ -y.


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fishy (adj.)

late 15c., "fish-like, slimy," from fish (n.) + -y (2). In reference to taste, from 1540s. Sense of "shady, questionable" is first recorded 1840, perhaps from the notion of "slipperiness," or of giving off a bad odor.