Citations:fishify

English citations of fishify

1. (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.

2. (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.