fishmonger
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English fisshemonger; equivalent to fish + monger.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (British) IPA(key): /ˈfɪʃˌmʌŋɡ.ə(ɹ)/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]fishmonger (plural fishmongers)
- (British) A person who sells fish.
- Synonyms: fishman, (formal, rare) ichthyopolist
- 1850, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Plato; or, The Philosopher”, in Representative Men: Seven Lectures, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, […], →OCLC, page 58:
- If he made transcendental distinctions, he fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers; from mares and puppies; from pitchers and soup-ladles; from cooks and criers; the shops of potters, horse-doctors, butchers, and fishmongers.
- (British, rare) A shop that sells fish; a fishmonger's shop, a fishmonger's.
- 1931, Grace Hegger Lewis, Half a Loaf[1], H. Liveright, page 225:
- And Susan, sure of this inevitable answer, would ask Cook to pop into the fishmonger for a nice bit of salmon, […]
- (figurative, archaic) A pimp.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (person who sells fish): (female): fishmongeress (fishmongress), fishwife, fishwoman, piscatrix (historical)
Translations
[edit]person who sells fish
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fishmonger's — see fishmonger's
pimp — see pimp
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