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-fishing

-fishing is the present participle and gerund 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 -fishing

What is -fishing the present participle and gerund of?
-fishing is the present participle and gerund of -fish.

Words near -fishing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -fishing (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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