fishwife
noun
- woman who prepares and sells fish
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From Middle English fysshewyfe; equivalent to fish + wife (“(obsolete) woman”) (see also midwife).
- A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger.
“[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.”
- A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice.
- A person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene.
- The wife of a homosexual man.