FISHWIFE


Meaning of FISHWIFE in English

ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun

Etymology: Middle English, from fish + wife

1. : a woman who sells fish at retail

2. : a scurrilously abusive woman

began to berate them in the coarse language of a fishwife — Louis Bromfield

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