fishmonger
English
Etymology
From Middle English fisshemonger; equivalent to fish + monger.
Pronunciation
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Noun
fishmonger (plural fishmongers)
- (British) A person who sells fish.
- Synonyms: fishman, (formal, rare) ichthyopolist
- (British, rare) A fishmonger's, a fishmonger's shop: a shop that sells fish.
- 1931, Grace Hegger Lewis, Half a Loaf,[1] H. Liveright (publisher), page 225:
- And Susan, sure of this inevitable answer, would ask Cook to pop into the fishmonger for a nice bit of salmon, […]
- 1990, Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Light Years, Simon and Schuster (1995), →ISBN, page 294:
- 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.
- 2007, Leslie Ann Bosher, To the Manor Drawn, Murdoch Books, →ISBN, page 157:
- Cornish peppered mackerel, smoked haddock, Scottish herring and pearl-white skate wings are all laid on a bed of crushed ice at the fishmonger.
- 1931, Grace Hegger Lewis, Half a Loaf,[1] H. Liveright (publisher), page 225:
- (archaic) A pimp.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.
Hyponyms
- (person who sells fish): (female): fishmongeress (fishmongress), fishwife, fishwoman, piscatrix (historical)
Translations
person who sells fish
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fishmonger's — see fishmonger's
archaic: a pimp
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