fishwife

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger. archaic
    — [S]he was angry with herself; and, for that, sang the more loudly the most wicked and risqué of her slang songs, that gave the morals of a Messalina in the language of a fish-wife, and yet had an inalienable, mischievous, contagious, dauntless French grace in it withal.
  2. A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice. derogatory
  3. A person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene. Geordie,derogatory
  4. The wife of a homosexual man. slang

词形变化

fishwives plural

词汇关系

衍生词
fishwifely

词源

From Middle English fysshewyfe; equivalent to fish + wife (“(obsolete) woman”) (see also midwife).
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