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fishwife

[ UK /fˈɪʃwa‍ɪf/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who sells fish

How To Use fishwife In A Sentence

  • The Fishwife herself, who gave me the young plants, says that her own crop failed – the tomatoes caught blight from the potatoes in her allotment and had to be ripped up and thrown away. Archive 2009-09-01
  • Back to vegetables: Fishwife, salicornia/salsola is said to be able to get along without salt, but I will take on board what you say. Archive 2009-01-01
  • 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. Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman'
  • He could return a blow as fast as any bully, a word as loudly as any fishwife in Westminster. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
  • She always had some little performance to entertain him: Rosa the schoolgirl, Rosa the fishwife, Rosa the poetess. SACRAMENT
  • But surely there was never sic a braw propine as this sent to a yerl by an auld fishwife, and through the hands of a gaberlunzie beggar. '' The Antiquary
  • The Cullercoats fishwife, with her cheerful weather-bronzed face, her short jacket and ample skirts of blue flannel, and her heavily laden "creel" of fish is not only appreciated by the brotherhood of brush and pencil, but is one of the notable sights of the district. Northumberland Yesterday and To-day
  • She'd turned into a shrewish, nagging fishwife who carried five sets of clothes around for her kids should they happen to get dirty.
  • Within this clearly defined conjunction of market types, the old fishwife has a role to play that is fully legitimate: she is the social antitype to her customers, but also their economic partner in exchange.
  • The impiousness of the fishwife's final ambition links her with Marlowe's Faustus as well as with Lady Macbeth.
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