[f. as prec. + WIFE.] A woman who sells fish.
1523. J. Rober, Will, in Archæol. Cant. (1859), II. 154. I bequethe to the making of an horse way, for the fisshe wyves.
1662. J. Davies, trans. Olearius’ Voy. Ambass., 80. They are all much given to quarelling, in so much that in the streets they will rail at, and abuse one another like Fish-wives.
1739. J. Miller, Jests, cxv. Asking the Price of some Fish, which she thought too dear, she bid the Fish Wife about half what she ask’d.
1867. J. Macgregor, Voy. Rob Roy (1868), 72. I took the tow-line thrown down from the quay by some sturdy fishwives, who will readily tug a boat to the pier head for a franc or two.
