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FISHMONGER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fishmonger mean?
• FISHMONGER (noun)
The noun FISHMONGER has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: FISHMONGER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who sells fish
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
fishmonger; fishwife
Hypernyms ("fishmonger" is a kind of...):
bargainer; dealer; monger; trader (someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold)
Context examples
Sometimes, we go at half-price to the pit of the theatre—the very smell of which is cheap, in my opinion, at the money—and there we thoroughly enjoy the play: which Sophy believes every word of, and so do I. In walking home, perhaps we buy a little bit of something at a cook's-shop, or a little lobster at the fishmongers, and bring it here, and make a splendid supper, chatting about what we have seen.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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