fishwoman

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Etymology

From fish +‎ -woman.

Noun

fishwoman (plural fishwomen)

  1. (dated) A woman who sells fish.
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
      Watt was not a woman's man, but the fishwoman pleased him greatly.

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