"fishwife" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fishwives [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English fysshewyfe; equivalent to fish + wife (“(obsolete) woman”) (see also midwife). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|fysshewyfe}} Middle English fysshewyfe, {{q|obsolete}} (obsolete), {{compound|en|fish|wife|t2=(obsolete) woman}} fish + wife (“(obsolete) woman”), {{m|en|midwife}} midwife Head templates: {{en-noun|fishwives}} fishwife (plural fishwives)
  1. (archaic) A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Female people, Occupations Synonyms (woman who sells fish): fishmongeress (alt: fishmongress), fishwoman, piscatrix [historical] Hypernyms (woman who sells fish): fishmonger Coordinate_terms (woman who sells fish): fishman Translations (a woman who sells or works with fish): piscãroanji [feminine] (Aromanian), fiskerkone [common-gender] (Danish), visvrouw (Dutch), poissarde [feminine] (French), poissonnière [feminine] (French), Fischhändlerin [feminine] (German), Fischverkäuferin [feminine] (German), caillagh eeast [feminine] (Manx), fiskerkone [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian), peixeira [feminine] (Portuguese), pescăreasă [feminine] (Romanian), cailleach-èisg (Scottish Gaelic), ban-iasgair (Scottish Gaelic), pescadera [feminine] (Spanish), fitajitedan (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-fishwife-en-noun-l2GcHZtj Disambiguation of Female people: 65 15 6 15 Disambiguation of Occupations: 42 12 24 22 Disambiguation of 'woman who sells fish': 76 7 16 1 Disambiguation of 'woman who sells fish': 76 7 15 1 Disambiguation of 'woman who sells fish': 77 7 15 1 Disambiguation of 'a woman who sells or works with fish': 87 3 8 1
  2. (derogatory) A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice. Tags: derogatory Synonyms (nagging woman): shrew Translations (a vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice): viswijf (Dutch), poissarde (cf. langage de poissarde) [feminine] (French), przekupka [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-fishwife-en-noun-ENMCP7rO Disambiguation of 'nagging woman': 20 54 22 3 Disambiguation of 'a vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice': 2 92 4 1
  3. (Geordie, derogatory) A person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene. Tags: Geordie, derogatory
    Sense id: en-fishwife-en-noun-7gssd04e Categories (other): Geordie English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 13 44 9
  4. (LGBT, slang) The wife of a homosexual man. Tags: slang Categories (topical): LGBT Hypernyms (wife of a homosexual man): beard
    Sense id: en-fishwife-en-noun-sYHZi-jD Categories (other): English quotations with omitted translation Topics: LGBT, lifestyle, sexuality Disambiguation of 'wife of a homosexual man': 1 0 0 99

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.