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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From catfish.
Suffix
[edit]-fish
- (neologism) Forming terms denoting disingenuous ways by which people seek to attract attention, especially on a dating app.
- 2024 August 10, Deirdre Bardolf, anonymous quotee, “What is ’hoodfishing’? The sneaky new trend singles are trying to cast a wider net in NYC”, in New York Post[1], New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-09-17:
- "As long as men height-fish, income-fish, marital status-fish, I will keep hood fishing!!!!" said another.
- 2024 August 29, Gina Cherelus, “The Irresistible Urge to Change Your Location on a Dating App”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-09-18:
- According to Jared Freid, a 39-year-old comedian and co-host of the dating podcast "U Up?," this is known as hoodfishing, a coinage — though not his own — referring to people claiming to be from the city they are dating in but really are living somewhere else entirely.
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[edit]Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Appearing in Old Albanian as -fijesh, ablative plural of fill (“thread”).[1]
Morpheme
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References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fill”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 97