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POOR FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poor fish mean? 

POOR FISH (noun)
  The noun POOR FISH has 1 sense:

1. a person who is not very brightplay

  Familiarity information: POOR FISH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POOR FISH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is not very bright

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dolt; dullard; pillock; poor fish; pudden-head; pudding head; stupe; stupid; stupid person

Context example:

The economy, stupid!

Hypernyms ("poor fish" is a kind of...):

simple; simpleton (a person lacking intelligence or common sense)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poor fish"):

berk (a stupid person who is easy to take advantage of)

blockhead; bonehead; dumbass; dunce; dunderhead; fuckhead; hammerhead; knucklehead; loggerhead; lunkhead; muttonhead; numskull; shithead (a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence)

klutz ((Yiddish) a clumsy dolt)


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