phishing

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• /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
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• homophone: fishing
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• rhymes with -ɪʃɪŋ
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• CMU ARPABET: F IH1 SH IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Respelling of fishing (“trying to find”). In Usenet newsgroups, cracker and pirate groups used variant spellings of phish and warez (i.e. wares) to evade scans and filters by mainstream servers policing the ARPAnet/Internet. Compare other respelling slang like phat and phreak.

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: uitvissing — malicious act
• Catalan: pesca — malicious act
• Catalan: pesca per correu electrònic — malicious act
• Chinese Cantonese: 釣魚法 /钓鱼法 (diu3 jyu4 faat3) — malicious act
• Chinese Cantonese: 釣魚欺詐 /钓鱼欺诈 (diu3 jyu4 hei1 zaa3) — malicious act
• Chinese Cantonese: 網釣法 /网钓法 (mong5 diu3 faat3) — malicious act
• Chinese Cantonese: 釣魚式攻擊 /钓鱼式攻击 (diu3 jyu4 sik1 gung1 gik1) — malicious act
• Chinese Cantonese: 網絡網釣 /网络网钓 (mong5 lok6 mong5 diu3) — malicious act
• Chinese Mandarin: 釣魚法 /钓鱼法 (diàoyúfǎ) — malicious act
• Chinese Mandarin: 釣魚欺詐 /钓鱼欺诈 (diàoyúqīzhà) — malicious act
• Chinese Mandarin: 網釣法 /网钓法 (wǎngdiàofǎ) — malicious act
• Chinese Mandarin: 釣魚式攻擊 /钓鱼式攻击 (diàoyúshì gōngjī, diàoyúshì gōngjí) — malicious act
• Chinese Mandarin: 網絡網釣 /网络网钓 (wǎngluò wǎngdiào) — malicious act
• Chinese Mandarin: 網路網釣 /网路网钓 (wǎnglù wǎngdiào) — malicious act
• Czech: phishing — malicious act
• Czech: rhybaření — malicious act
• Dutch: phishing — malicious act
• Esperanto: rettrompado — malicious act
• Finnish: verkkourkinta — malicious act
• Finnish: tietojen kalastelu — malicious act
• Finnish: khalastelu — malicious act
• Finnish: phishing — malicious act
• French: hameçonnage — malicious act
• Georgian: თაღლითობა (taɣlitoba) — malicious act
• Georgian: ფიშინგი (pišingi) — malicious act
• German: Phishing — malicious act
• Hebrew: דִּיּוּג (diyúg) — malicious act
• Hebrew: פישינג (físhing) — malicious act
• Hungarian: adathalászat — malicious act
• Indonesian: pengelabuan — malicious act
• Irish: fioscaireacht — malicious act
• Japanese: フィッシング (fisshingu) — malicious act
• Japanese: フィッシング詐欺 (fisshingu sagi) — malicious act
• Korean: 피싱 (pising) — malicious act
• Māori: hītinihanga — malicious act
• Persian: فیشینگ (fišing) — malicious act
• Polish: wyłudzanie danych — malicious act
• Portuguese: phishing — malicious act
• Romanian: înșelăciune electronică — malicious act
• Russian: фи́шинг (fíšing) — malicious act
• Spanish: phishing — malicious act
• Spanish: fishin — malicious act
• Swedish: nätfiske — malicious act
• Welsh: gwe-rwydo — malicious act