Fishwife

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fishwife \Fish"wife`\, n.
     1. A fishwoman.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A woman who abusively scolds other people, often using
        coarse or vulgar language.


        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fishwife
       n : someone who sells fish [syn: {fishmonger}]
       [also: {fishwives} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "fishwife":
     Xanthippe, amazon, baker, battle-ax, beldam, bitch, bookdealer,
     bookseller, butcher, cat, chandler, clothing merchant,
     common scold, confectioner, draper, drysalter, fishmonger, florist,
     footwear merchant, fruiterer, furnisher, furrier, fury,
     greengrocer, grocer, groceryman, haberdasher, hardwareman, harpy,
     ironmonger, jeweler, liquor merchant, newsdealer, ogress, perfumer,
     poulterer, saddler, scold, she-devil, she-wolf, shrew, spitfire,
     stationer, termagant, tigress, tobacconist, vintner, virago, vixen,
     wine merchant, witch