Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who sells fish.
- noun A woman regarded as coarse and shrewishly abusive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who sells fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fishwoman.
- noun A woman who abusively scolds other people, often using coarse or vulgar language.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
woman who sells or works withfish . (The female form offishmonger .) - noun pejorative A
vulgar ,abusive ornagging woman with aloud ,unpleasant voice. - noun Geordie, pejorative Term of abuse, usually directed at women, implying lack of personal
hygiene .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who sells fish
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Examples
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Well, if you`d cared to type "fishwife" into the "Search Blog" box above, you`d have come up with this post all about them.
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Well, if you`d cared to type "fishwife" into the "Search Blog" box above, you`d have come up with this post all about them.
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The 230 included a university philosopher, several beauticians and hairdressers, a dentist, a fishwife, a pharmacologist, a wet nurse and a school teacher, who had been denounced by one of her own pupils.
Clearing the Fog Patrick Marnham 2011
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We are living, apparently, at the mercy of people with the manners of a chimpanzee and the tongue of a Sicilian fishwife.
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That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I'd only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound.
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A benefit-scrounging layabout fishwife with a mouth on her like the Blackwall Tunnel and Max Clifford on speed-dial?
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We are living, apparently, at the mercy of people with the manners of a chimpanzee and the tongue of a Sicilian fishwife.
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I had too many as it was, and it made me feel like a fishwife.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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"If you don't validate me utterly you are a fishwife!" is not the response of a man who thinks with the head on his shoulders.
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009
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For a moment she dropped the careful masque of the unruffled first mistress and looked like an irritated fishwife.
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yarb commented on the word fishwife
I imagine a sort of proletarian mermaid.
October 18, 2007