fishing for compliments
fishing for compliments is the present participle and gerund of fish for compliments.
Meaning of fish for compliments
Verb
fish for compliments (third-person singular simple present fishes for compliments, present participle fishing for compliments, simple past and past participle fished for compliments)
- To self-deprecate in order to induce someone to make a compliment.
- He’s so narcissistic! He whines that he’s ugly and unlikeable just to fish for compliments.
Questions about fishing for compliments
- What is fishing for compliments the present participle and gerund of?
- Fishing for compliments is the present participle and gerund of fish for compliments.
Words near fishing for compliments in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fishing for compliments (page history and authors); fish for compliments (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “fishing for compliments.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fishing_for_compliments. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.