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fishmongers

fishmongers is the plural of fishmonger.

Meaning of fishmonger

Noun

fishmonger (plural fishmongers)

  1. (UK) A person who sells fish.
    • If he made transcendental distinctions, he fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers; from mares and puppies; from pitchers and soup-ladles; from cooks and criers; the shops of potters, horse-doctors, butchers, and fishmongers.1850, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Plato; or, The Philosopher”, in Representative Men: Seven Lectures, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, […], →OCLC, page 58
  2. (UK, rare) A shop that sells fish; a fishmonger's shop, a fishmonger's.
    • And Susan, sure of this inevitable answer, would ask Cook to pop into the fishmonger for a nice bit of salmon, […]1931, Grace Hegger Lewis, Half a Loaf, H. Liveright, page 225
  3. (archaic, figuratively) A pimp.
    • Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Questions about fishmongers

What is fishmongers the plural of?
Fishmongers is the plural of fishmonger.

Words near fishmongers in the dictionary

  1. fishmonger's
  2. fishmongeress
  3. fishmongeresses
  4. fishmongeries
  5. fishmongering
  6. fishmongers
  7. fishmongery
  8. fishmongress
  9. fishmongresses
  10. fishmoth
  11. fishmoths

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