different between whoremonger vs fishmonger
whoremonger
English
Etymology
whore +? monger
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?h???m??.??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?h???m??.??/, /?h???m??.??/
Noun
whoremonger (plural whoremongers)
- (Britain, vulgar) A frequent customer of whores.
- (Britain, vulgar) A procurer of whores; a pimp.
Translations
whoremonger From the web:
fishmonger
English
Etymology
fish +? monger
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f???m???.?(?)/
Noun
fishmonger (plural fishmongers)
- (Britain) A person who sells fish.
- (Britain, rare) A fishmonger's, a fishmonger's shop: a shop that sells fish.
- 1931, Grace Hegger Lewis, Half a Loaf,[1] H. Liveright (publisher), page 225:
- And Susan, sure of this inevitable answer, would ask Cook to pop into the fishmonger for a nice bit of salmon, […]
- 1990, Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Light Years, Simon and Schuster (1995), ?ISBN, page 294:
- A nice woman at the fishmonger in Earl’s Court Road—she had to walk miles to find a fish shop—told her how to cook the fillets of plaice she bought.
- 2007, Leslie Ann Bosher, To the Manor Drawn, Murdoch Books, ?ISBN, page 157:
- Cornish peppered mackerel, smoked haddock, Scottish herring and pearl-white skate wings are all laid on a bed of crushed ice at the fishmonger.
- 1931, Grace Hegger Lewis, Half a Loaf,[1] H. Liveright (publisher), page 225:
- (archaic) A pimp.
- "Excellent well; you are a fishmonger." - William Shakespeare, said by Hamlet to Polonius. (Act 2, Scene 2)
Synonyms
- (person who sells fish): fishman, (formal, rare) ichthyopolist
Hyponyms
- (person who sells fish): (female): fishmongeress (fishmongress), fishwife, fishwoman, piscatrix (historical)
Translations
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