fishwife

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Betty! also completes something of a trilogy for Peake, who has previously written plays about two other pioneering real-life women - champion cyclist Beryl Burton and Hull fishwife Lillian Bilocca.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2022

“Angela Carter” is a flickering entity, part fishwife and part fairy.

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2017

A Canadian waitress who swears like a fishwife goes on holiday to Boracay.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2016

In Part 2, we turn to the story of glamorous and inaccessible Mathilde—who, we learn, was born in France, as Aurélie, her mother a fishwife in Nantes, her father a stonemason.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2015

Once safely on the north bank, I asked a cheerful fishwife the way to The George, where I found Falconer eating his supper—fish, again.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood