Fishwife

Word FISHWIFE
Character 8
Hyphenation fish wife
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Fishwife"

What do we mean by fishwife?

A woman who sells fish. noun

A woman regarded as coarse and shrewishly abusive. noun

A woman who sells fish. noun

A fishwoman. noun

A woman who abusively scolds other people, often using coarse or vulgar language. noun

A woman who sells or works with fish. (The female form of fishmonger.) noun

A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice. noun

Term of abuse, usually directed at women, implying lack of personal hygiene. noun

Someone who sells fish noun

A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger.

A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice.

A person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene.

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The word "fishwife" in example sentences

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. ❋ Spinningfishwife (2007)

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. ❋ Patrick Marnham (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I had too many as it was, and it made me feel like a fishwife. ❋ Andrea Buchanan (2011)

A benefit-scrounging layabout fishwife with a mouth on her like the Blackwall Tunnel and Max Clifford on speed-dial? ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

We are living, apparently, at the mercy of people with the manners of a chimpanzee and the tongue of a Sicilian fishwife. ❋ David Tereshchuk (2012)

For a moment she dropped the careful masque of the unruffled first mistress and looked like an irritated fishwife. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

Yes | No | Report from fishwife wrote 3 days 3 hours ago ❋ Unknown (2009)

"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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mizolwat - (suddenly) I knew you were a lazy one when I fishwife steeped my eyelids in your putridness - A true lazy one I threshold. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The "cockles and mussels" version of the song, in which the tireless ghost of the eponymous fishwife continues to patrol the streets of Dublin after her death, was first published in the US in 1883 and attributed to James Yorkston. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Whoever the speaker is, male or female, fishwife or schoolmaster, there is nothing literary in the voice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

McQueen – whose memorial service was on Monday – once memorably described Blow as "a cross between a Billingsgate fishwife and Lucrezia Borgia". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet it might be worth putting up with him (and, I daresay, his shrill little fishwife who has also been the subject of some drastic over-promotion to the Treasury) for the rest of this Parliament. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mizolwat - A dirty Wrist like you sick me up? that's a laurel - I knew your kink at fishwife gleam - dirty Wrist says I to myself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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