Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Diminutive of fish.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryOf, from, or similar to fish. · Suspicious; inspiring doubt. · Of a drag queen or a trans woman: appearing very feminine and resembling a cisgender woman.
From Middle English fishi, fischey, equivalent to fish + -y.
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- Inherited-form mentionfishienm
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