fishwife

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

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2017

“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

Do they not hear me hollering over the fence at my sons every day in the habitual, maternal accents of a native-born fishwife?

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver