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fishes

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈfɪʃɪz//

plural of fish multiple kinds of fish

noun

  1. 1

    plural of fish multiple kinds of fish

    Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.

    sleep with the fishes.

    I get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes

  2. 2

    plural of fish multiple individual fish

    I caught six fishes today!

    Thẽ ſayde they vnto hĩ: we have here but .v. loves and two fyſſhes.

    "The evil is for those benighted ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship, as the fishes see the stars, but dimly."

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of fishthird-person singular simple present indicative of fish

    He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).