phishing

See also: Phishing

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
Homophone: fishing
  • Rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ

Noun

phishing (uncountable)

  1. (computing) The malicious act of keeping a false website or sending a false e-mail with the intent of masquerading as a trustworthy entity in order to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.
  2. The act of circumventing security with an alias.

Synonyms

Translations

Verb

phishing

  1. present participle of phish

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfiʃiŋ/, [ˈfiʃiŋ]

Noun

phishing

  1. (slang) phishing

Declension
Inflection of phishing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative phishing phishingit
genitive phishingin phishingien
partitive phishingiä phishingejä
illative phishingiin phishingeihin
singular plural
nominative phishing phishingit
accusative nom. phishing phishingit
gen. phishingin
genitive phishingin phishingien
partitive phishingiä phishingejä
inessive phishingissä phishingeissä
elative phishingistä phishingeistä
illative phishingiin phishingeihin
adessive phishingillä phishingeillä
ablative phishingiltä phishingeiltä
allative phishingille phishingeille
essive phishinginä phishingeinä
translative phishingiksi phishingeiksi
instructive — phishingein
abessive phishingittä phishingeittä
comitative — phishingeineen
Possessive forms of phishing (type risti)
possessor singular plural
1st person phishingini phishingimme
2nd person phishingisi phishinginne
3rd person phishinginsä

Synonyms

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.

Pronunciation
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ʃĩ/

Noun

phishing m (uncountable)

  1. (computer security) phishing (the act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organisation)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfiʃin/ [ˈfi.ʃĩn]
  • Rhymes: -iʃin

Noun

phishing m (uncountable)

  1. (computing) phishing

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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