different between hygiene vs fishwife

English

Etymology

From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ??????? (?????) (hugiein? (tékhn?), literally “art of health”), from ???????? (hugieinós, “of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ????? (hugi?s, “healthy, sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?'j?n, IPA^(key): /?ha??d?i?n/

Noun

hygiene (countable and uncountable, plural hygienes)

1. The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
2. Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.

3. Cleanliness.

4. (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• hygiene in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• hygiene in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

1. hygiene

Derived terms

• munnhygiene

Related terms

• hygienisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

1. hygiene

Derived terms

• munnhygiene

Related terms

• hygienisk

English

Etymology

fish +? wife (“now-obsolete meaning woman”). (see also midwife)

Noun

fishwife (plural fishwives)

1. (archaic) A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger.
2. (derogatory) A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice.
3. (Tyneside, derogatory) A person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene.

Synonyms

• (woman who sells fish): fishmongeress (fishmongress), fishwoman, piscatrix (historical)
• (nagging woman): See Thesaurus:shrew

Hypernyms

• (woman who sells fish): fishmonger

Coordinate terms

• (woman who sells fish): fishman

Translations

Scots

Etymology

fish +? wife

Noun

fishwife (plural fishwifes)

1. fishwife
2. (derogatory) woman of coarse behaviour, temperament and vocabulary