-fish
-fish suffix: forming terms denoting disingenuous ways by which people seek to attract attention, especially on a dating app.
Suffix
-fish (verb-forming suffix, third-person singular simple present -fishes, present participle -fishing, simple past and past participle -fished)
- Forming terms denoting disingenuous ways by which people seek to attract attention, especially on a dating app.
- "As long as men height-fish, income-fish, marital status-fish, I will keep hood fishing!!!!" said another.2024 August 10, Deirdre Bardolf, anonymous quotee, “What is 'hoodfishing'? The sneaky new trend singles are trying to cast a wider net in NYC”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN...
- According to Jared Freid, a 39-year-old comedian and co-host of the dating podcast "U Up?," this is known as hoodfishing, a coinage — though not his own — referring to people claiming to be from the city they are dating in but really are living somewhere else entirely.2024 August 29, Gina Cherelus, “The Irresistible Urge to Change Your Location on a Dating App”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
Forms of -fish
| third-person singular present | -fishes |
|---|---|
| present participle | -fishing |
| past participle | -fished |
| past | -fished |
Origin of -fish
Back-formation from catfish.
Questions about -fish
- What does -fish mean?
- -fish means forming terms denoting disingenuous ways by which people seek to attract attention, especially on a dating app.
- What part of speech is -fish?
- -fish is a suffix.
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