Crossword clues for fishmonger
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fishmonger \Fish"mon`ger\, n. A dealer in fish.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British English) A person who sells fish. (A female fishmonger can also be called a fishwife.) 2 (context British rare English) A fishmonger's, a fishmonger's shop: a shop that sells fish. 3 (context archaic English) A pimp.
WordNet
n. someone who sells fish [syn: fishwife]
Wikipedia
A fishmonger ( fishwife for women practitioners - "wife" in this case used in its archaic meaning of "woman") is someone who sells raw fish and seafood. Fishmongers can be wholesalers or retailers, and are trained at selecting and purchasing, handling, gutting, boning, filleting, displaying, merchandising and selling their product. In some countries modern supermarkets are replacing fishmongers who operate in shops or fish markets.
__TOC__
Usage examples of "fishmonger".
But in few cases can we get at our permanent liking without at least as much experience as a fishmonger must have had before he can choose at once the best bloater out of twenty which, to inexperienced eyes, seem one as good as the other.
We had stopped at a combination butcher, poulterer, and fishmonger on our way back to Dornoch.
Only three cats had been seduced from the track by hooligans who hooted like owls to scare the cats into skidding off the track, or hollered like fishmongers, waving overripe fish or raw chicken legs.
Westminster, and preventing scandalous monopolies of a few engrossing fishmongers, who imposed exorbitant prices on their fish, and, in this particular branch of traffic, gave law to above six hundred thousand of their fellow-citizens.
The son of a fishmonger who had profited in the tulipomania thirty years before, Joachim had come of age believing that only fools labored for their money when they might buy and sell for it instead.
On the corner of Yedo-cho and Ni-cho-me streets, greengrocers and fishmongers hawked their wares.
Instead he rose and returned to his cold flat above the fishmongers in the high street, to pass the evening in his books and his dreams.
Meanwhile he suffers like crazy whenever the fishmonger comes around and starts giving Tanrose big discounts.
Here am I, they say, a mere wholesale fishmonger, at the controls of a giant airliner because as it turns out all the crew had the Coronation Chicken.
Seagulls hovered above the stalls, waiting for the fishheads and innards the fishmongers threw into the canal.
White palaces with white columns and screened wrought-iron balconies cheek-by-jowl with white-plastered weavers' shops and fishmongers and stables, great white houses with louvered shutters hiding then* arched windows beside white inns with painted signs hanging in front and open markets under long roofs where live sheep and chickens, calves and geese and ducks made a barnyard din alongside their fellows already butchered and hanging.
White palaces with white columns and screened wrought-iron balconies cheek-by-jowl with white-plastered weavers' shops and fishmongers and stables, great white houses with louvered shutters hiding then arched windows beside white inns with painted signs hanging in front and open markets under long roofs where live sheep and chickens, calves and geese and ducks made a barnyard din alongside their fellows already butchered and hanging.