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fishmonger

noun

  1. preparer and seller of fish
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfɪʃˌmʌŋɡ.ə(ɹ)/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English fisshemonger; equivalent to fish + monger.

  1. A person who sells fish.

    If he made transcendental distinctions, he fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers; from mares and puppies; from pitchers and soup-ladles; from cooks and criers; the shops of potters, horse-doctors, butchers, and fishmongers.

  2. A shop that sells fish; a fishmonger's shop, a fishmonger's.

    And Susan, sure of this inevitable answer, would ask Cook to pop into the fishmonger for a nice bit of salmon, […]

    A nice woman at the fishmonger in Earl’s Court Road—she had to walk miles to find a fish shop—told her how to cook the fillets of plaice she bought.

  3. A pimp.

    Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.

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