fishwife
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger.Examples: "[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."Synonyms: fishmongeress, fishwoman, piscatrixarchaic
2. (derogatory) A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice.Synonyms: shrewderogatory
3. (Geordie, derogatory) A person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene.Geordiederogatory
4. (LGBTQ, slang) The wife of a homosexual man.slang
Definition source: Wiktionary