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fish-head

fish-head is the alternative form of fishhead.

Meaning of fishhead

Noun

fishhead (plural fishheads)

  1. The head of a fish.
  2. (slang) A member of a navy; a sailor; a fisherman.
    • Being a Plymouth girl, I had heard plenty of racy stories about navy chaps, or fishheads as we called you. The navy regularly swarmed the streets of Plymouth on a Saturday night.2009, Dawn French, Dear Fatty, page 180
  3. (ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A person from Southeast Asia.
    • > >I see you are trying to post in chink. Ha!! Ha!!
      >
      > No, that was an English translation of your post.
      Your^([sic]) a fishhead Ha!! Ha!!2004 June 29, Cerberus, “Papers Please!”, in ok.general (Usenet)

Forms of fish-head

pluralfish-heads

Questions about fish-head

What is fish-head the alternative form of?
Fish-head is the alternative form of fishhead.

Words near fish-head in the dictionary

  1. fish-goat
  2. fish-goats
  3. fish-handler's disease
  4. fish-hawk
  5. fish-hawks
  6. fish-head
  7. fish-heads
  8. fish-hook theory
  9. fish-horn
  10. fish-horns
  11. fish-house

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fish-head (page history and authors); fishhead (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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