fish

UK: fɪʃ | US: fɪʃ

Definition

  1. n. a cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate with gills and fins

  2. vt. to catch or try to catch fish

  3. vi. to search or seek something indirectly

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Etymology

Derived from Proto-Germanic fiskaz, tracing back to Proto-Indo-European peysk- (fish). The word has remained phonetically and semantically stable across millennia, reflecting its status as a core noun for a natural object. Unlike compound words, "fish" evolved as an indivisible unit in English.

Examples

  1. The river is teeming with fish.

  2. He loves to fish at dawn.

  3. She fished her keys out of her bag.

  4. They went fishing in Alaska last summer.

  5. His explanation was just a way to fish for compliments.