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FISHMONGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fishmonger mean? 

FISHMONGER (noun)
  The noun FISHMONGER has 1 sense:

1. someone who sells fishplay

  Familiarity information: FISHMONGER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FISHMONGER (noun)


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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