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fishy

/ˈfɪʃi/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈfɪʃi/
fishy
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

fis - hy -> fishy

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ငါးညှီနံ့နံသော။

Full entry

fish / fÇʃ / n (pl unchanged or fishes)

၁။ [C] ငါး။ They caught several fish. ❍ shoals of fish ❍ There are some rare fishes lurking in the deeper British lakes.
၂။ [U] ငါး။ frozen / smoked / fresh fish ❍ boiled / fried / grilled fish ❍ fish curry ❍ Fish forms the main part of their diet.
၃။ [U] (infml ) လူစား။ He seems a cold fish to me. သူဟာ အေးတိအေးစက်လူစားမျိုး ဖြစ်ပုံရတယ်။
❍ He's a queer / an odd fish— he hasn't been out of his house for years. သူကတော့ လူတစ်မျိုးပဲ။ နှစ်နှင့်ချီပြီး သူဟာ အိမ်ထဲ ကကို မထွက်ဘူး။
v
၁။ (က) ~ (for sth) ငါးမျှားသည်။ ငါးဖမ်းသည်။ I often fish/ go fishing at weekends. ❍ fishing for salmon.
(ခ) (ကန်၊ မြစ် စသည်တွင်) ငါးမျှားသည်၊ ငါးဖမ်းသည်။ fish a river / lake.
၂။ ~ (for sth ) ဟိုစမ်းဒီစမ်း ရှာသည်။ She fished (around) in her bag for the keys.
❏ fish and chips (Brit ) (US fish fry ) n [sing] ငါးကြော်နှင့် အာလူး(ချောင်း)ကြော်။ Fish and chips is very expensive these days. ❍ a fish and chip shop.
❏ fish cake n ငါးဆုပ်တုံး။
❏ fish-eye lens n
(ကင်မရာ စသည်တွင်) ၁၈၀½ နီးပါး ထောင့်ကျယ်သော မှန်ဘီလူး။ (ပုံရိပ်တို့ကို ရွဲ့စေသည်။ ) Compare WIDE- ANGLE LENS
❏ fish farm n ငါးမွေးမြူရေးကန်။
❏ fish finger (Brit ) (US fish stick ) n ပေါင်မုန့်ခြောက် အမှုန့်လူး၍ ကြော်ထားသော လက်ချောင်းခန့် ငါးအသားချောင်း။
❏ fish for sth [PHRV ] ရေလာမြောင်းပေး လုပ်သည်။ အစ် အောက်သည်။ fish for compliments / information.
❏ fish-hook n ငါးမျှားချိတ်။
❏ fishing n [U] တံငါ။ ငါးဖမ်း(အလုပ်)။ deep sea fishing ❍ a fishing boat ❍ fishing grounds ❍ Fishing is the main industry of the area.
❏ fishing-line n
လက်ထွန့်ပစ်ကြိုး။ ငါးတန်းချကြိုး။
❏ fishing-rod (US also fishing pole ) n ငါးမျှားတံ။
❏ fish-knife n
ငါးစားရာ၌ သုံးရသော စားပွဲတင်ဓား။
❏ a fish out of water [IDM ] မိကျောင်းကြည်းတင်။ With my school background I feel like a fish out of water among these university people.
❏ fish sth out (of sth) [PHRV ] ဆွဲထုတ်သည်။ Several old cars are fished out (of the canal) every month. ❍ He fished a length of string out of his pocket.
❏ fish-slice n (Brit )
ငါးကြော်ရာ၊ ပြုတ်ရာတွင်သုံးသောသတ္တုယောက်ကော်။ (ချက်ပြုတ်ကြော်လှော်သည့်အခါလှန်လှောမယူနိုင်သော လက်ကိုင်အရိုးရှည်တပ်ထားသည်။ ) ❍ KITCHEN Compare SPATULA
❏ fishy adj (-ier, -iest )
၁။ ငါးညှီနံ့ရသော။ a fishy smell.
၂။ (infml ) မသင်္ကာဖွယ်ရာ။ မဟုတ်တရုတ်။
There's something fishy going on here.
❏ have bigger / other fish to fry [IDM ] ပိုအရေးကြီးတဲ့ တခြားကိစ္စတွေ ရှိသေးတယ်။
❏ there are (plenty of) other fish in the sea; there are (plenty) more (good) fish in the sea [IDM ] သူ့ထက်/သည့်ထက်သာတာ အပုံကြီးပဲ။

More examples
  • Little silver fish swam past.
  • Did you catch any fish?
  • Kenny keeps tropical fish.
Synonyms
angle, go fishing, cast a line, catch fish, trawl, bait, bait the hook, bandeau, beginner, bob, buckwheater, cast, cast one's hook, cast one's net, catechumen, chum, dig around, dupe, extract, extricate, fillet, find, flesh, fly-fish, game, greenie, gudgeon, haul out, headband, lamb, listel, net, new kid on block, new person, nose about, nose around, novitiate, pigeon, probationer, probe, produce, pull out, ravin, scout, search, seek, seine, snood, stuffing, troll, wild animal, wild animals
Cross references
anglego fishingcast a linecatch fishtrawlbaitbait the hookbandeaubeginnerbobbuckwheatercastcast one's hookcast one's netcatechumenchumdig arounddupeextractextricatefilletfindfleshfly-fishgamegreeniegudgeonhaul out
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