fishwoman
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
fishwoman (plural fishwomen)
- (dated) A woman who sells fish.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- Watt was not a woman's man, but the fishwoman pleased him greatly.
Synonyms[edit]
- fishmongeress (fishmongress), fishwife, piscatrix (historical)
Coordinate terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
woman who sells fish — see fishwife