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

Her high-profile roles have been peppered with projects like a concept album about the Pendle Witch Trials, playing Hamlet on stage - and now writing a play about a Hull fishwife.

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

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