Meaning of fishwife | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger.
   archaic
2. A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice.
   derogatory
3. A person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene.
   Geordie, derogatory
4. The wife of a homosexual man.
   slang

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Examples

“[S]he was angry with herself; and, for that, sang the more loudly the most wicked and risqué of her slang songs, that gave the morals of a Messalina in the language of a fish-wife, and yet had an inalienable, mischievous, contagious, dauntless French grace in it withal.”

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