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fishwife

noun

  1. woman who prepares and sells fish
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From Middle English fysshewyfe; equivalent to fish + wife (“(obsolete) woman”) (see also midwife).

  1. 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.

  2. A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice.
  3. A person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene.
  4. The wife of a homosexual man.