fishwife

Example Sentences

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If the history of the hoax is an ancient and labyrinthine city, then Young has explored every alleyway, gossiped with every fishwife, drunk in every bar in town.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2017

"Big Lil" was a fishwife, and her husband, father and son all worked on the trawlers.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 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

Mordred said, in his equivocal musical voice, that he could understand a fishwife, but not a fish mistress.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White