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fishmonger

[ UK /fˈɪʃmʌŋɡɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪʃˌmɑŋɡɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who sells fish

How To Use fishmonger In A Sentence

  • Ask the fishmonger to bone the fish for you.
  • Stokton, a fishmonger, Thomas Yong, a saddler, and Robert Jakes, a shearman — all of whom had more than once been convicted of perjury, and on that account been struck off inquests — had contrived to get themselves replaced on the panel, and had been the chief movers in the recent actions against the late mayor and other officers of the city. London and the Kingdom - Volume I
  • Dead fish, huge things that would grace any fishmonger's slab, could be had by sticking your hand in the water. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you are unsure about how to cut open a scallop or sea urchin, fillet a brill or clean an octopus, just ask your local fishmonger to do it for you.
  • Further into Chinatown there are more traditional market-type shops, including fishmongers with plastic buckets of eels, poulterers with flattened ducks and grocers with rambutans, lychees and other tropical Asian fruits.
  • In a pinch, try buying rockweed from your fishmonger; it's used to pack shellfish and is often abundant where seafood is sold. Happy as a Clambake
  • He first gutted them, in the old fishmonger's style that leaves the fish looking whole. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the fishmonger's slab the rows of dead fish symbolized everyone's lack of interest in his fate. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Sadly, we hardly ever see them whole in the fishmonger's - just great piles of white ready - prepared skinless fillets.
  • I found myself transfixed by the fishmonger's the other day. Times, Sunday Times
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