fishen
fishen adjective: relating to or characteristic of a fish; fishlike.
Adjective
fishen (comparative more fishen, superlative most fishen)
- Relating to or characteristic of a fish; fishlike
- From betwixt their shoulders grewe their winges like Ha[r]pies, stretching downe and extending to the foulding and turnings of theyr tayles, vpon their monstrous flankes grew out their fynnes to swimme withall, their beginning, their fishen and scalye substance, and from thence so continuing theyr...1592, Francesco Colonna, Robert Dallington, Hypnerotomachia, the strife of love in a dreame, page 53
Synonyms of fishen
Forms of fishen
| comparative | more fishen |
|---|---|
| superlative | most fishen |
Origin of fishen
From Middle English fisshen (“fishlike”), equivalent to fish + -en. Compare English piscine.
Words that rhyme with fishen
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
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- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
Questions about fishen
- What does fishen mean?
- Fishen means relating to or characteristic of a fish; fishlike.
- What part of speech is fishen?
- Fishen is an adjective.
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