fishwife

Perhaps you'll be staggering under a creel like a Newhaven fishwife before you return.

Suddenly a clamor was heard on the shore, and soon after a fishwife made her appearance, with rather a singular burden.

"It's no oot o' the kirk window ye'll hae seen him, Sandy, my mon," said a young fishwife.

It was about this time that Giorgione's ladylove won fame by discarding him in that foolish, fishwife fashion.

Mary became a Greek slave, or a Billingsgate fishwife, with amusing unexpectedness.