fishmonger

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɪʃˌmʌŋɡ.ə(ɹ)/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who sells fish. UK
    — If he made transcendental distinctions, he fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers; from mares and puppies; from pitchers and soup-ladles; from cooks and criers; the shops of potters, horse-doctors, butchers, and fishmongers.
  2. A shop that sells fish; a fishmonger's shop, a fishmonger's. UK,rare
    — And Susan, sure of this inevitable answer, would ask Cook to pop into the fishmonger for a nice bit of salmon, […]
  3. A pimp. archaic,figuratively
    — Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.

词形变化

fishmongers plural

词汇关系

下位词
fishwife fishwoman piscatrix

词源

From Middle English fisshemonger; equivalent to fish + monger.
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