fish
/fɪʃ/ noun C2- A period of time spent fishing. · The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
- An instance of seeking something. · Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
Plural fishes
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Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer-shaped little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all directions, “just like a star-fish,” thought Alice.
“Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on; then, when you’ve cleared all the jelly-fish out of the way—”
“They were obliged to have him with them,” the Mock Turtle said: “no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”
“Of course not,” said the Mock Turtle: “why, if a fish came to _me_, and told me he was going a journey, I should say ‘With what porpoise?’”
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