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-fished

-fished is the simple past and past participle of -fish.

Meaning of -fish

Suffix

-fish (verb-forming suffix, third-person singular simple present -fishes, present participle -fishing, simple past and past participle -fished)

  1. (neologism) 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...

Questions about -fished

What is -fished the simple past and past participle of?
-fished is the simple past and past participle of -fish.

Words near -fished in the dictionary

  1. -fied
  2. -fier
  3. -fies
  4. -filcon
  5. -fish
  6. -fished
  7. -fishes
  8. -fishing
  9. -fix
  10. -flippin'-
  11. -flippin-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -fished (page history and authors); -fish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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