fisherfolk
noun/ˈfɪʃəfəʊk/UK/ˈfɪʃɚˌfoʊk/US
Etymology
From fisher (“person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport”) + folk; compare fisherman.
Definitions
People who fish for a living.
- Sir Walter Scott used Auchmithie as the model for his 'Musselcrag' in The Antiquary. The artist William Lamond spent 40 summers in the village, and painted scenes of Auchmithie and its fisherfolk.
Members of a culture that is dominated by fishing.
Recreational fishers.
- Every year Grey Nomad migration sees the little Gulf town of Karumba stretched creaseless with sunbirds and fisherfolk.
The neighborhood
- neighborfisher
- neighborfisheress
- neighborfisherman
- neighborfisherperson
- neighborfisherwoman
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fisherfolk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA