fishwife
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Betty! also completes something of a trilogy for Peake, who has previously written plays about two other pioneering real-life women - champion cyclist Beryl Burton and Hull fishwife Lillian Bilocca.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2022
“Angela Carter” is a flickering entity, part fishwife and part fairy.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2017
A Canadian waitress who swears like a fishwife goes on holiday to Boracay.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2016
In Part 2, we turn to the story of glamorous and inaccessible Mathilde—who, we learn, was born in France, as Aurélie, her mother a fishwife in Nantes, her father a stonemason.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2015
Mordred said, in his equivocal musical voice, that he could understand a fishwife, but not a fish mistress.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Alloa-born artist David Allan created drawings of ordinary people going about their daily lives in Edinburgh, including soldiers, coalmen, fishwives, sedan chair porters, firemen and officers of the city guard.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2021
In Sutcliffe’s sepia-toned prints, Whitby appears misty, moody and — if you replace the somberly dressed fishwives with tourists — almost identical to today.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2015
But that was the Ryan Women: fishwives to the marrow, they were always ready to fight and knew the places that would cut deepest.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
Cuba was most distressing: the Kennedy Administration and the Cuban exiles it had praised and supported were now fighting like fishwives.
From Time Magazine Archive
Along the span were shops and stalls of every sort; weavers and lacemakers displayed their wares cheek by jowl with glassblowers, candle- makers, and fishwives selling eels and oysters.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
