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fishmonger

noun
/ˈfɪʃˌmʌŋɡ.ə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English fisshemonger; equivalent to fish + monger.

  1. inherited from fisshemonger

Definitions

  1. A person who sells fish.

  2. A shop that sells fish

    A shop that sells fish; a fishmonger's shop, a fishmonger's.

    • And Susan, sure of this inevitable answer, would ask Cook to pop into the fishmonger for a nice bit of salmon, […]
    • A nice woman at the fishmonger in Earl’s Court Road—she had to walk miles to find a fish shop—told her how to cook the fillets of plaice she bought.
    • Cornish peppered mackerel, smoked haddock, Scottish herring and pearl-white skate wings are all laid on a bed of crushed ice at the fishmonger.

  3. A pimp.

    • Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fishmonger. 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