vish

[ vish ]

/ vɪʃ /

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verb (used without object)

to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from people by placing phone calls, typically automated, that seem to be from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution: an increase in vishing, facilitated by VoIP, an internet-based phone system.

verb (used with object)

to make a victim in this way: I was vished and now my bank account is empty!

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Origin of vish

First recorded in 2005–10; v(oice) + (ph)ish

OTHER WORDS FROM vish

visher, noun

Words nearby vish

Visct., viscus, vise, Visegrad, Viseu, vish, Vishakhapatnam, Vishinsky, Vishnevskaya, Vishnu, visibility

How to use vish in a sentence

Who is Ignatiy Vishnevetsky ( Ig-nah-tee Vish-neh-vet-ski)?
The New Roger Ebert Takes Our Movie Quiz|Marlow Stern|January 19, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Aber I vish dot you vould go ofer py der alley und lisden pehindt der house.
Motor Matt's Daring Rescue|Stanley R. Matthews
I don't vish to 'urry you—but I vant you to mike 'aste—&c., &c.
Voces Populi|F. Anstey
I have mooch money; mein haus in Batavia is mosd peautiful, und you shall have plendy servands to do all dot you vish.
Foster's Letter Of Marque|Louis Becke

I do very moshe vish zat ze only ting ze plenty humbug professors now-a-days stuff vas ze birds!'
The Knickerbocker, Vol. 57, No. 1, January 1861|Various
Wol′fish, Wol′vish, like a wolf either in form or quality: rapacious.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)|Various