Thesaurus / fishwife
FEEDBACK- bag
- battle-ax
- beldam
- biddy
- crone
- fury
- gorgon
- harpy
- harridan
- jezebel
- Medusa
- ogress
- shrew
- slattern
- sorceress
- termagant
- virago
- vixen
- witch
- backbiter
- battle-ax
- bitch
- carper
- detractor
- dragon
- fire-eater
- fury
- harpy
- harridan
- hellion
- muckraker
- nag
- ogress
- porcupine
- scold
- she-devil
- spitfire
- termagant
- tigress
- virago
- vixen
- calumniator
- hell cat
- reviler
- she-wolf
- vituperator
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How to use fishwife in a sentence
Perhaps you'll be staggering under a creel like a Newhaven fishwife before you return.
A PAIR OF SCHOOLGIRLSANGELA BRAZILSuddenly a clamor was heard on the shore, and soon after a fishwife made her appearance, with rather a singular burden.
CHRISTIE JOHNSTONECHARLES READE"It's no oot o' the kirk window ye'll hae seen him, Sandy, my mon," said a young fishwife.
CHRISTIE JOHNSTONECHARLES READEIt was about this time that Giorgione's ladylove won fame by discarding him in that foolish, fishwife fashion.
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT, VOLUME 4 (OF 14)ELBERT HUBBARDMary became a Greek slave, or a Billingsgate fishwife, with amusing unexpectedness.
THE GREY WIG: STORIES AND NOVELETTESISRAEL ZANGWILLScarcely had I alighted when a fishwife ran out of a cabin and addressed me in Basque.
ROMANTIC SPAINJOHN AUGUSTUS O'SHEAWith the aid of a fishwife she pulled away the corpse, discovering the shaken, limp form of the mountebank Cramoisin.
IN THE NAME OF LIBERTYOWEN JOHNSONA cobbler made a fourth, then two apprentices from a cloth-merchant attached themselves, then a fishwife and a tow-headed newsboy.
IN THE NAME OF LIBERTYOWEN JOHNSONMy madness dresses itself in logic like a fishwife hanging rhinestones in her hair.
FANTAZIUS MALLAREBEN HECHTThese fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, set the philosopher to thinking.
LES MISRABLESVICTOR HUGOWORDS RELATED TO FISHWIFE
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