Citations:fishify
English citations of fishify
- (transitive) To change (flesh) to fish; to transform into a fish.
- 1932, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume CLI, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, →OCLC, page 712:
- […] it does not appear that Shakespeare's friend was fined and jailed for his refusal, in Mercutio's phrase, to fishify the flesh of his immortal guests.
- (figuratively) To make as wet as a fish; to drench with water.
“fishify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.