The meaning of FISHY is of or resembling fish especially in taste or odor. How to use fishy in a sentence.

Idiom smell fishy (Definition of fishy from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Definition of fishy adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

If you describe a situation as fishy, you feel that someone is not telling the truth or behaving completely honestly.

1. like a fish esp. in smell or taste. 2. dubious; suspicious: That excuse sounds fishy.

fishy, adj. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

If you say something is fishy, it probably means you think something is suspicious. If you’re sitting next to someone eating a tuna sandwich, though, you could just mean you smell a fishy odor.

Definition of fishy. English dictionary and integrated thesaurus for learners, writers, teachers, and students with advanced, intermediate, and beginner levels.

That story sounds/smells fishy [= suspicious, dubious] to me. There's something fishy about that guy.

FISHY definition: like a fish in shape, smell, taste, or the like. See examples of fishy used in a sentence.