fishwife

Valid in Scrabble

Definition of fishwife

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(archaic)A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger.

“[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.”

See all 4 definitions

noun

(archaic)A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger.

“[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.”
(derogatory)A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice.
(Geordie, derogatory)A person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene.
(slang)The wife of a homosexual man.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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

46 playable · top: WHIFFS (18 pts)

4 words

13 words

16 words

12 words

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes fishwife, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.

Find more plays Browse word lists