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Fishy

Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.

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Questionable 84% connected

Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Questionable 84% connected

Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry.

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Fish 74% connected

A counter, used in various games.

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Fish 74% connected

A counter, used in various games.

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Fish 66% connected

A counter, used in various games.

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Funny 92% connected

Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shady 92% connected

Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.

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Suspect 92% connected

Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

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Suspicious 92% connected

Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

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-ous unknown · 78% connection

An adjective suffix meaning full of, abounding in, having, possessing the qualities of, like; as in gracious, abounding in grace; ardu…

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Ability noun · 78% connection

possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; "danger heightened his power…

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Acid adjective · 78% connection

Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.

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Amphioxus noun · 78% connection

A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its bod…

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Attaste verb · 78% connection

To taste or cause to taste.

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Bellows fish unknown · 78% connection

A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish,…

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Bur fish unknown · 78% connection

A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distendin…

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Cheesy adjective · 78% connection

Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.

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Cinchonidine noun · 78% connection

One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a b…

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Cretaceous adjective · 78% connection

Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk.

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Degustation noun · 78% connection

Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.

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Dermopterygii n. pl. · 78% connection

A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia.

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Disgust verb · 78% connection

Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily…

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Fanciful adjective · 78% connection

Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fancifu…

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Fishiness noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike.

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Fishlike adjective · 78% connection

Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish.

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Genteel adjective · 78% connection

Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of…

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Goldfish noun · 78% connection

A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been i…

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