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Fishwife

noun
(pl. fishwives)
1.
Someone who sells fish.  Synonym: fishmonger.






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"Fishwife" Quotes from Famous Books



... at her the look of a well-bred woman insulted by a brawling fishwife, and with Roddy's hand tightly in hers, walked out of the veranda without ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley

... of a ballet dancer or of a flower girl would too markedly invite criticism. Her fifty years and her towering shape would really have made her too conspicuous in such parts. On the other hand, to show herself as a peddler woman or fishwife would have, so she feared, made her look "too natural." Having, therefore, discarded these notions, her fancy roved in the realms of the beautiful and fantastic, until it settled down upon a costume which, bespangled and with its garland of rushes, she declared to ...
— A Little Garrison - A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day • Fritz von der Kyrburg



Words linked to "Fishwife" :   monger, dealer, trader, bargainer, fishmonger



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