fishify

Verb

fishify (third-person singular simple present fishifies, present participle fishifying, simple past and past participle fishified)

1. (transitive) To change (flesh) to fish; to transform into a fish.
   • Ben[volio]. Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.
     Mer[cutio]. Without his Roe, like a dryed Hering. O fleſh, fleſh, how art thou fiſhified?Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (2016), “herring”, in Shakespeare's Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary (Arden Shakespeare Dictionary Series), London; New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, →ISBN, page 230
   • By ſtrange kitchen alchymy, ev'ry diſh
     Seem'd tranſmuted for Epicure Mammon:
     There was fiſhified fleſh, and fleſhified fiſh;
     A calfs-head ſeem'd a fine jole of ſalmon.1768, “A Sailor's Description of the Late Masquerade”, in The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politicks, and Literature for the Year 1768, volume IX, London: Printed for J[ames] Dodsley...
2. (figuratively, transitive) To make as wet as a fish; to drench with water.
   • […] I have found a cure for his lunatic excellency. Water expelleth fire—marry, when he talks of being an archbishop, souse him, good Tio,—fishify him straight,—may be his madness is a dog madness which flieth from the fountain.1822 December, “Vargas [Vargas: A Tale of Spain, in three volumes. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. 1822.]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume XII, number LXXI, Edinburgh: William...
   • For although unable to recognise in water an universal and infallible panacea for all the ills that flesh is heir to, we can yet bear a large testimony in its favour, and send it out to service with the highest character. It is our deliberate and mature conviction that the inhabitants of the...1846 September, Richard J[ames] Lane, “The Water-Cure [Life at the Water-Cure; or, a Month at Malvern. A Diary. By Richard J. Lane. London: 1846]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume LX...