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How to pronounce “fish

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Pronunciation guide for fish

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of fish with real speech in context.
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Real speech example
Eye of the Shoalto unhitch fish from their reputation
Definition summary
(countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

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How to pronounce fish

Eye of the Shoal

to unhitch fish from their reputation

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “fish

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
  • (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following taxonomic groups:
  • (archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
  • (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
  • (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
  • (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
  • (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
  • (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
  • (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
  • (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
  • (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
  • (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
  • (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
  • (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman.[1] (See also fishy.)
  • (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
  • (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
  • (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
  • (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.

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