Meaning of fishgirl | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A girl who catches, prepares, or sells fish.
2. A mermaid.

Examples

“The next new and characteristic objects that presented themselves, as we went up the quay, were the fishwomen, or fishgirls rather—for they were all young—coming down with their small nets and net frames on their shoulders, looking as stout and resolute as men; […]”

“You can see⟳ the sailors knitting there. And the old fishgirls in the Jersey.”

“They would have⟳ gone out riding or to place⟳ bets, sometimes with the ration money, or been unavoidably delayed watching their friend Jean-Jacques Vallon sever fishgirls at the elbow or shorten carters below the knee.”

“According to her own⟳ best calculation, Black Pearl had recently turned eighteen years of age, at the beginning of the summer. She knew, therefore, that she had not very many years of life remaining. Mermaids, fishgirls, of her age never did.”

“The Nereids have⟳ become⟳ sea-nymphs, given a fish’s tail they would be mermaids, as one may see⟳ them represented, though mermaids or fishgirls exist⟳ in the traditional undatable art of the Inuit, who I think⟳ invented them.”

“[T]hough the bikini-clad fishgirls looked on, admiringly, prone on platter-like sun beds, as if about to provide⟳ their confabulated cousins with a ‘fruits of the sea’ lunchtime buffet, I knew from experience⟳ that those mermaids’ sexual interests were focused entirely on the human fishermen whom they lured to their deaths in the Straits of Gibraltar; […]”

“Fantasies of mermaids with warm, green-fringed caves. Decorous fantasies of both, in all combinations, with all manner of parts: those that are absent, and parts that are new, known only to the minds of desperate dreaming fishgirls.”

““Sometimes when he’s down he goes to Mermaid Lagoon,” Cubby said, rolling his eyes. “Talks with the fishgirls.””

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