Fishy wishy is a childish or affectionately playful British term for a fish — typically used when speaking to very young children or when adults adopt a deliberately infantile register for comic effect. It follows the classic nursery vocabulary pattern of reduplication with phonetic variation ('itsy bitsy,' 'walky talky'), softening ordinary words into baby-talk forms. The term is inoffensive, gentle, and entirely domestic in register; you might say it to a toddler at an aquarium.
Look at the fishy wishy in the pond, she told her daughter, pointing at the goldfish circling beneath the surface.
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(UK, childish, or, endearing) A fish.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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