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Perhaps you'll be staggering under a creel like a Newhaven fishwife before you return.

Suddenly a clamor was heard on the shore, and soon after a fishwife made her appearance, with rather a singular burden.

"It's no oot o' the kirk window ye'll hae seen him, Sandy, my mon," said a young fishwife.

It was about this time that Giorgione's ladylove won fame by discarding him in that foolish, fishwife fashion.

Mary became a Greek slave, or a Billingsgate fishwife, with amusing unexpectedness.

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On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fishwife, such as: fury, hag, harpy, harridan, nag, and scold.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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