fishwife
noun[C]
UKold-fashioneduk/ˈfɪʃ.waɪf/us/ˈfɪʃ.waɪf/pluralfishwivesaloud,unpleasantwoman
骂街的泼妇；粗野的女人- At this style of language the fishwives are said to be extremely proficient.
- If it isn't some one she's brought by her yells, snarled the fishwife.
- They quarrel like fishwives and scold about the number of "sides" each other has, and refuse to play up prettily, and I'm heartsick over it all, Sally.
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Very often a fishwife's professional career overlapped with motherhood.
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So am but it does not stop one commenting on the analogy of landlubbers and fishwives.
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I should be proud to be afishwife.
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I do not think it was as faulty as his analogy between landlubbers and fishwives in his parish council.
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If some leaders of nations behave like raucous fishwives, it is all that much more difficult for the family to live happily ever after.
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All we want to do is to exempt fishwives or people who carry fish in baskets for sale, but who cannot carry a weighing machine, too.
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The story follows the fortunes of a youngfishwifeliving at the turn of the 20th century.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.All are variously famous for fishwives, press gangs, ships, boats and sailors, and beautiful scenery.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The fishwives got their way.
FromThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His pictures illustrate the various strata of society; banquets or meetings of officers, guildsmen, local councilmen from mayors to clerks, itinerant players and singers, gentlefolk, fishwives and tavern heroes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Virago,fishwifeand shrew are near synonyms for termagant in this sense.
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