fishmonger

English

WOTD – 3 October 2010

A fishmonger (person who sells fish) at work

fish +‎ monger

fishmonger (plural fishmongers)

(Britain) A person who sells fish. (A female fishmonger can also be called a fishwife.)
(Britain, rare) A fishmonger's, a fishmonger's shop: a shop that sells fish.
- 1931, Grace Hegger Lewis, Half a Loaf, 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.
(archaic) A pimp.
"Excellent well; you are a fishmonger." - William Shakespeare, said by Hamlet to Polonius. (Act 2, Scene 2)

person who sells fish

Armenian: ձկնավաճառ (jknavačaṙ)
Bashkir: балыҡ һатыусы (balïq hatïwsï)
Basque: arrain-saltzaile (eu)
Catalan: peixater
Chinese:
Mandarin: 魚商, 鱼商 (yúshāng), 魚販子 (zh), 鱼贩子 (zh) (yúfànzi), 魚販 (zh), 鱼贩 (zh) (yúfàn)
Danish: fiskehandler (da) c, fiskemand c
Dutch: vishandelaar m
Estonian: kalakaupmees
Faroese: fiskahandlari m
Finnish: kalakauppias (fi)
French: poissonnier (fr) m, poissonnière (fr) f
Friulian: pessâr m
German: Fischhändler (de) m, Fischhändlerin (de) f, Fischverkäufer (de) m, Fischverkäuferin (de) f
Greek: ιχθυοπώλης (el) m (ichthyopólis)
Haitian Creole: pwasonye
Irish: ceannaí éisc m
Italian: pescivendolo (it) m, pescivendola (it) f

fishmonger's — see fishmonger's

archaic: a pimp

French: proxénète (fr) m or f
Greek: νταβατζής (el) m (davatzís)
Italian: magnaccia (it), pappone (it), ruffiano (it), lenone (it), protettore (it)