fishwife
(ˈfɪʃwaɪf)
[f. as prec. + wife.]
A woman who sells fish.
| 1523 J. Roper Will in Archæol. Cant. (1859) II. 154, I bequethe to the making of an horse way, for the fisshe wyves. 1662 J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Amb. 80 They..abuse one another like Fish-wives. 1739 J. Miller Jests cxv, She bid the Fish-Wife about half what she asked. 1867 J. Macgregor Voy. Rob Roy (1868) 72, I took the tow⁓line thrown down from the quay by some sturdy fishwives. |