fishen

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English

Etymology

From Middle English fisshen (fishlike), equivalent to fish +‎ -en. Compare English piscine.

Pronunciation

Adjective

fishen (comparative more fishen, superlative most fishen)

  1. (obsolete) Relating to or characteristic of a fish; fishlike
    • 1592, Francesco Colonna, Robert Dallington, Hypnerotomachia, the strife of love in a dreame, page 53:
      From betwixt their shoulders grewe their winges like Hapies, stretching downe and extending to the foulding and turnings of theyr tayles, vpon their monstrous flankes grew out their fynnes to swimme withall, their beginning, their fishen and scalye substance, and from thence so continuing theyr nether parts downewarde.