bummaree
bummaree noun: a porter or dealer of fish at Billingsgate Fish Market in London.
Noun
bummaree (plural bummarees)
- A porter or dealer of fish at Billingsgate Fish Market in London.
- The bummaree is the jobber or speculator on the fish-exchange. Perhaps on every busy morning 100 men buy a quantity of fish, which they account likely to be remunerative, and retail it, or dispose of it in lots to the fishmongers or costermongers. Few if any of these dealers, however, are merely...1851, Henry Mayhew, “Of the Forestalling of Markets and the Billingsgate Bummarees”, in London Labour and the London Poor
- A person fulfilling a similar function at the Smithfield Meat Market in London.
Forms of bummaree
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Questions about bummaree
- What does bummaree mean?
- Bummaree means a porter or dealer of fish at Billingsgate Fish Market in London.
- What part of speech is bummaree?
- Bummaree is a noun.
- What is the plural of bummaree?
- The plural of bummaree is bummarees.
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