fishwife

noun 4

Definitions

noun

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.

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