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prettygoodwordfishify (FISH-i-fai) - v., to turn into fish; (fig.) to drench in water (making as wet as a fish).
Thanks Shakespeare for ensuring this one survives, with Mercutio taunting Romeo, "Without his Roe, like a dried herring. O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified?" (where Roe is both short for Rosaline, with whom he assumes Romeo has just spent the night, and another name for milt, or fish semen -- apparently Romeo is pale from his night's exertions with Juliet).
---L.
Thanks Shakespeare for ensuring this one survives, with Mercutio taunting Romeo, "Without his Roe, like a dried herring. O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified?" (where Roe is both short for Rosaline, with whom he assumes Romeo has just spent the night, and another name for milt, or fish semen -- apparently Romeo is pale from his night's exertions with Juliet).
---L.
