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suspish

suspish is the clipping of suspicious.

Meaning of suspicious

Adjective

suspicious (comparative more suspicious, superlative most suspicious)

  1. Arousing suspicion.
    • His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.
    Synonyms:
    questionable, queer
  2. Distrustful or tending to suspect.
    • We know he has a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.
    Synonyms:
    doubtful, leery
    Antonyms:
    unsuspecting
  3. Expressing suspicion
    • She gave me a suspicious look.

Verb

suspish (third-person singular simple present suspishes, present participle suspishing, simple past and past participle suspished)

  1. (slang) To be suspicious of; to suspect.
    • "Oh, boy, but you sure look some!" was drawn from one in frank approval. "Now that you're in his togs the guy's own mother wouldn't suspish you."1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

Synonyms of suspish

Forms of suspish

Adjective
comparativemore suspish
superlativemost suspish
Verb
third-person singular presentsuspishes
present participlesuspishing
past participlesuspished
pastsuspished

Questions about suspish

What does suspish mean?
Suspish means to be suspicious of; to suspect.
What is suspish the clipping of?
Suspish is the clipping of suspicious.
What part of speech is suspish?
Suspish is a verb.
What is the past tense of suspish?
The past tense of suspish is suspished.

Words near suspish in the dictionary

  1. suspire
  2. suspired
  3. suspires
  4. suspiring
  5. suspirious
  6. suspish
  7. suspished
  8. suspishes
  9. suspishing
  10. suspition
  11. suspitions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suspish (page history and authors); suspicious (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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