(a.) Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.
(a.) Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul.
Example Sentences:
(1) produced strong rotten, fishy, hydrogen sulphide off-odours.
(2) Humans treated with large doses of choline smell "fishy" (the odor of TMA).
(3) We conclude that uremic breath reflects the systemic accumulation of potentially toxic volatile metabolites, among which dimethylamine and trimethylamine have been positively identified and correlated with the classic fishy odor.
(4) In a simple randomized trial of 90 cases (30 cases in each group) with demonstrated clinical bacterial vaginosis on the presence of 3 of 5 of the following signs: (1) Characteristic thin homogenous discharge; (2) vaginal pH greater than 4.5; (3) release of a fishy amine odor from vaginal fluid mixed with 10% KOH; (4) presence of clue cells (usually representing at least 20% of vaginal epithelial cells); and (5) vaginal fluid contains few or no lactobacilli.
(5) It is properly diagnosed using three of the four following criteria: (1) presence of homogenous, thin, milklike vaginal discharge; (2) vaginal pH > 4.5; (3) fishy odor on alkalinization of the vaginal secretions; and (4) presence of clue cells on microscopic examination of vaginal secretions.
(6) On good days friends would comment on the fishy smell; other days, when the aroma was likened to sperm, were more bleak.
(7) He’s not credible at all.” One of the Lucas charges was a “fishy” September 2010 trip to India, where he speculates Snowden may have met unspecified Russians or intermediaries, and attended a hacking course.
(8) No serious side effects were noted other than a "fishy aftertaste."
(9) It is concluded that trimethylamine is the primary cause of the fishy odor associated with bacterial vaginosis.
(10) Bacterial vaginosis can be reliably diagnosed through clinical indicators such as clue cells on wet preparation of vaginal discharge, an increased pH of vaginal discharge, a fishy, amine odor emitted when a sample of vaginal discharge is placed in potassium hydroxide, and cultures that isolate G. vaginalis.
(11) Illustration: David Foldvari There's something fishy about Google's motto, "Don't be evil."
(12) So large cuttlefish and octopus are happiest when slow-roasted or stewed – and if that involves red wine and hard herbs, the result is tender, robust and meaty all at once: a knockout ragout with a fishy twist.
(13) The skins lying on the ground give off a powerful fishy smell.
(14) Besides isolation of the organism by culture, two alternative diagnostic procedures have been claimed to be useful: the investigation of "clue cells" in clinical specimens and the amine volatilization test or fishy odor perception in genital secretions.
(15) Samples were collected from 11 women with a vaginal discharge having a fishy odor and from 10 women with no detectable odor.
(16) A fishy odor, present in bacterial vaginosis, was also found in almost half of the T. vaginalis cases.
(17) But he also hinted the duke’s office should cease its intermediary role on Sunninghill saying: “I think I should now deal direct with the incoming purchasers on any detail relating to the site.” The crown estate said that no deal on any London properties went through as a result of the intervention, but Tim Farron, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the duke’s role was “unacceptable” and “looks very fishy”.
(18) (The golden trout , native only to a small area of these mountains, is a subspecies of rainbow trout that blazes with red and gold during its spawning season; I have caught bushels of them over the years, not out of hunger or to satisfy my predatory instinct, but just to marvel at the beauty of them, after which I give each one a little kiss before releasing it to go on living its fishy life in peace.
(19) The crickets had a slightly fishy aftertaste and the buffalo worms a metallic one.
(20) A patient complaining of fishy smelling urine and perspiration appeared for evaluation.
Iffy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Before you know it you can have a few iffy results.
(2) Iffy grooming habits are the least of Wolfowitz's worries as he takes on the presidency of the World Bank.
(3) If Sampson had a case for arguing that Rafferty’s inital push had been made marginally outside the area, he could have had no complaints when England – due £35,000 per woman bonuses had they lifted the trophy – won a distinctly iffy penalty of their own.
(4) The keeper has looked iffy today but letting that in would have made him absolutely whiffy.
(5) Arsenal’s players performed a cancan on the pitch at Highbury as fans chanted: “We are unbeatable.” After an iffy first half, they had won 2-1 to complete a full season without defeat in the league.
(6) It’s looking certainly more iffy than it did even just a few days ago.
(7) It's looking like an iffy pot, or a two cushion escape.
(8) Because now Nando's has been caught ploughing money into all manner of legal but morally iffy offshore tax havens, and the fragile castle of ideology that I have painstakingly constructed for myself has crumpled.
(9) When they mentioned figures, they were very iffy about whether they were positive or negative.
(10) 11.12pm BST Tweets Rory Murphy (@bogotabandit2) so @HunterFelt prediction already looking a bit iffy.
(11) Their only post-promotion victory came at Sunderland in August but, after a few slightly iffy performances, Ramírez was back to his elegant, subtly incisive, intelligent best during last Saturday’s encouraging 0-0 draw at Arsenal .
(12) Berlind's theory of ovum transmigration in the etiology of tubal pregnancy is revived and brought into line with Iffy's delayed ovulation-reflux hypothesis.
(13) In other words: Tonight is your chance to go crazy conspiracy theorists, feel free to examine the game tape surrounding every iffy call as if it were the Zapruder film.
(14) It might be one of the oldest methods of preserving fruit, but make sure you put them in an airtight container, and if you've had them for a while, now's the time to use them up – I'm a bit iffy about keeping any ingredient for longer than six months.
(15) Jarvis isn't interested in who celebrities are shagging: "People might be a bit iffy, but that's between them and their conscience.
(16) He’s the one that’s been very iffy and about his role and what he would like to do about immigration.” Reckless made the comments when he was challenged to spell out what would happen to a Polish plumber if Ukip had its way on Britain leaving the EU.
(17) Indeed, according to Jim Ward's account, only an iffy penalty decision kept Rams – Isthmian League Cup winners that season – out of the final against Wimbledon.
(18) It was a bit iffy when Garvey got to the bullying (he said "strong-willed" and "tough" too many times, like he'd spent a weekend with Miliband, brainstorming positive terms for "bastard").
(19) Everyone: Isn't it a bit iffy hanging around with her again?
(20) Asked about calls for an election pact, he said: “The internal wrangling of the Conservative party is no longer my problem … There is something a little bit iffy about the idea of pacts, because it suggests politicians fixing things for their convenience.