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fishboys

fishboys is the plural of fishboy.

Meaning of fishboy

Noun

fishboy (plural fishboys)

  1. A boy who catches, prepares, or sells fish.
    • Beeny retired before the thunder and lightning of indignant virtue. Then all the fishboys struck up a dismal chant of victory. “Yoo-hoo—Custy’s won the day—Beeny’s scair-tit,” going up on the last syllable.1853, Charles Reade, chapter XIII, in Christie Johnstone. A Novel., London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 217
  2. A merboy.
    • “Sometimes, when the sea is tempestoso, the fishboys come into the village through the grotto, and take away… how you say?” The charcoal embers in his eyes glow. “They take away the bad boys.”2003, John Sam Jones, “The Fishboys of Vernazza”, in Fishboys of Vernazza, Cardigan, Ceredigion: Parthian, →ISBN, page 6

Questions about fishboys

What is fishboys the plural of?
Fishboys is the plural of fishboy.

Words near fishboys in the dictionary

  1. fishborne
  2. Fishbourne
  3. fishbowl
  4. fishbowls
  5. fishboy
  6. fishboys
  7. fishbrained
  8. fishburger
  9. fishburgers
  10. Fishburn
  11. Fishburne

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