adv. [f. FISHY + -LY2.] In a fishy manner.
1851. Fraser’s Mag., XLIV. Oct., 439. Naples, like her king, is as fishily inclined as ever, and, oddly enough, still in obedience to the same great autocrat—Rome; the authority of her culinary code under the emperors has been succeeded by the yet more domineering assumption of power by her Church.
1879. F. W. Robinson, Coward Consc., III. i. Marcus shook hands fishily all round.
