- 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...
- 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...
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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...
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Fishwife (Danish: Fiskerkone) is a 1940
granite statue of a
fishwife situated at
Gammel Strand in Copenhagen, Denmark,
commemorating the fact that the...
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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...
-
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'...
-
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)...
- below). The word wif, (which
meant "female",
ancestor of "wife" as in "
fishwife"), is also neuter. Mann ("Man") was
grammatically male, but
meant "a person"...
