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Definition of Fishwife

Fishwife
Fishwife Fish"wife`, n. A fishwoman.

Meaning of Fishwife from wikipedia

- A fishwife, fish-**** or fishl**** is a woman who sells fish. She is typically the wife of a fisherman, selling her husband's catch, but other sources of...
- A fishmonger (historically fishwife for female practitioners) is someone who sells raw fish and seafood. Fishmongers can be wholesalers or retailers and...
- Fishwife was an American punk rock band from San Diego, California, active from 1990 to 1993 and consisting of Ryan Foxe (vocals), Matt Ohlin (b**** guitar)...
- Dorothy Pentreath (bap. 16 May 1692 – 26 December 1777) was a Cornish fishwife from Mousehole. She is one of the last known fluent speakers of the Cornish...
- the world's longest-running television soap opera, Coronation Street. Fishwife Jeanne Hachette Termagant Virago Karen (slang) Look up battle axe in Wiktionary...
- word is still used in Modern English in constructions such as midwife and fishwife. Old wives' tales are often invoked to discourage certain behaviours, usually...
- comparison to "The Runaway Bride"; Donna was changed from a "shouting fishwife" to a more emotional person when she became a full-time companion. Critics...
- is dead now, and can't flash those violet eyes, and open that fabulous fishwife mouth, in reply. Simon De Bruxelles wrote of the diaries in 2012, "The...
- having a feminine gender but a fishwife, an actual female, lacking any. When Twain translates the "Tale of the Fishwife and its Sad Fate", he expresses...
- Fishwife (Danish: Fiskerkone) is a 1940 granite statue of a fishwife situated at Gammel Strand in Copenhagen, Denmark, commemorating the fact that the...