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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 gigs
  2. fish glue
  3. fish glues
  4. fish hawk
  5. fish hawks
  6. fish head
  7. fish heads
  8. Fish Hoek
  9. fish hook
  10. fish hook theory
  11. fish hooks

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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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