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fish⋅wife

  [fish-wahyf]
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–noun, plural -wives.
1. a woman who sells fish.
2. a coarse-mannered, vulgar-tongued woman.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME fisshwyf. See fish, wife
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fish·wife   (fĭsh'wīf')   
n.   pl. fish·wives (-wīvz')

  1. A woman who sells fish.

  2. A woman regarded as coarse and shrewishly abusive.

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