Fishwife

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger. archaic

    "[S]he was angry with herself; and, for that, sang the more loudly the most wicked and risqué of her slang songs, that gave the morals of a Messalina in the language of a fish-wife, and yet had an inalienable, mischievous, contagious, dauntless French grace in it withal."

  2. 2
    a female who sells fish wordnet
  3. 3
    A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice. derogatory
  4. 4
    A person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene. Geordie, derogatory
  5. 5
    The wife of a homosexual man. slang

Etymology

From Middle English fysshewyfe; equivalent to fish + wife (“(obsolete) woman”) (see also midwife).

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