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-fishes

-fishes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 -fishes

What is -fishes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
-fishes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of -fish.

Words near -fishes in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -fishes (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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