fishly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, relating to, characteristic of, or pertaining to fishes; piscine.
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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."
- "Twice the cork bobbed prophecies of a fishly investigation. Twice the angler raised the squirming bait; but each time minus the scaly victim."
- "At this the Fish did titter a fishly Titter, and Bit!"
- "It is a personality of a fishly sort."
- "The perch, for example, regards the danger as exaggerated: all one needed was to exercise moderation, "as a fishly virtue"; "it had bitten off many a bait without suffering any damage to its body.""
- "In due course they reached the far side of the Element of Water, gourd annex. The path lead through a translucent vertical wall, and there seemed to be no special challenge to passing through it, except for their fishly status."
Etymology
From fish + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more fishly (comparative)
most fishly (superlative)