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How to pronounce “fish”
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Pronunciation guide for fish
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of fish with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Eye of the Shoal
to unhitch fish from their reputation
- Definition summary
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce fish
Eye of the Shoal
to unhitch fish from their reputation
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “fish”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following taxonomic groups:
- (archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman.[1] (See also fishy.)
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
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