Meaning of fishboy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A boy who catches, prepares, or sells fish.
2. A merboy.

Examples

“Beeny retired before the thunder and lightning of indignant virtue. Then all the fishboys struck up a dismal chant of victory. “Yoo-hoo—Custy’s won the day—Beeny’s scair-tit,” going up on the last⟳ syllable.”

““Have⟳ you seen these local fishboys running through their militia drills?” a midshipman asked his mates loudly when the song was done. “I swear⟳ it was a right entertainment.””

“In the early twentieth century it was noted that the bank messengers and fishboys, waiters and city policemen, still wore mid-Victorian costume as if to display their antique deference or respectability.”

““Sometimes, when the sea is tempestoso, the fishboys come⟳ into the village through the grotto, and take⟳ away… how you say⟳?” The charcoal embers in his eyes glow. “They take⟳ away the bad boys.””

“She’s going to ask⟳ how long fishboys live⟳, anyway, tell⟳ me that it isn’t forever.”

“I remember⟳ the tales of children enticed to the floor of the sea by mermaids and fishboys in search⟳ of playmates.”

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