different between unpleasant vs fishwife
unpleasant
English
Etymology
From Middle English unplesaunt, equivalent to un- +? pleasant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?plez?nt/
Adjective
unpleasant (comparative unpleasanter or more unpleasant, superlative unpleasantest or most unpleasant)
- Not pleasant.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- O sweet Portia,
- Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words
- That ever blotted paper!
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt, p. 214,[2]
- It was indeed one admirable piece of Conduct in the said Magistrates, that the Streets were kept constantly clear, and free from all manner of frightful Objects, dead Bodies, or any such things as were indecent or unpleasant, unless where any Body fell down suddenly or died in the Streets […]
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 35,[3]
- The very circumstance, in its unpleasantest form, which they would each have been most anxious to avoid, had fallen on them.
- 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 1,[4]
- […] she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them […]
- 1921, Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget, Chapter 37,[5]
- And I dipped into novels so like the unpleasanter parts of my own life that they might just as well have been autobiographies.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
Derived terms
- unpleasantness
Synonyms
- disagreeable
Translations
Anagrams
- pennatulas
unpleasant From the web:
- what unpleasant mean
- what does unpleasant mean
- what do unpleasant mean
- what does extremely unpleasant mean
fishwife
English
Etymology
fish +? wife (“now-obsolete meaning woman”). (see also midwife)
Noun
fishwife (plural fishwives)
- (archaic) A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger.
- (derogatory) A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice.
- (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)
- fishwife
- (derogatory) woman of coarse behaviour, temperament and vocabulary
fishwife From the web:
- what's fishwife mean
- fishwife what does it mean
- what is fishwife rice
- what does fishwife mean in slang
- what does fishwife mean urban dictionary
- what does fishwife mean in spanish
- what does fishwife
- what is a fishwife definition
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- unpleasant vs fishwife
- loud vs fishwife
- nag vs fishwife
- abusive vs fishwife
- vulgar vs fishwife
- fishmonger vs fishwife
- terms vs picine
- picine vs ricine
- merchild vs merperson
- merbaby vs merperson
- mermother vs merperson
- merfather vs merperson
- merlad vs merperson
- merguy vs merperson
- merboy vs merperson
- merwoman vs merperson
- piscatory vs piscator
- piscatory vs piscators
- fish vs piscatory
- fishing vs piscatory