noun
Meaning 1
A person who sells fish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fishman, ichthyopolist
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fishmonger
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈfɪʃˌmʌŋɡ.ə(ɹ)/
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CMU ARPABET: F IH1 SH M AA2 NG G ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A shop that sells fish; a fishmonger's shop, a fishmonger's.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, rare
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A pimp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
someone who sells fish
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fishwife
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: trader, bargainer, dealer, monger
History
Etymology
From Middle English fisshemonger; equivalent to fish + monger.
Across languages
Translations
74 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: vishandelaar — person who sells fish
- Albanian: peshkatar — person who sells fish
- Albanian: tregtar peshku — person who sells fish
- Arabic: سَمَّاك (sammāk) — person who sells fish
- Arabic: بَائِع سَمَك (bāʔiʕ samak) — person who sells fish
- Arabic: سماك (sammāk) — person who sells fish
- Aragonese: pescatero — person who sells fish
- Armenian: ձկնավաճառ (jknavačaṙ) — person who sells fish
- Bashkir: балыҡ һатыусы (balıq hatıwsı) — person who sells fish
- Basque: arrain-saltzaile — person who sells fish
- Belarusian: гандля́р ры́бай (handljár rýbaj) — person who sells fish
- Catalan: peixater — person who sells fish
- Chinese Mandarin: 魚商 /鱼商 (yúshāng) — person who sells fish
- Chinese Mandarin: 魚販子 /鱼贩子 (yúfànzi) — person who sells fish
- Chinese Mandarin: 魚販 /鱼贩 (yúfàn) — person who sells fish
- Czech: prodejce ryb — person who sells fish
- Danish: fiskehandler — person who sells fish
- Danish: fiskemand — person who sells fish
- Dutch: vishandelaar — person who sells fish
- Dutch: visboer — person who sells fish
- Dutch: visverkoper — person who sells fish
- Esperanto: fiŝvendisto — person who sells fish
- Estonian: kalakaupmees — person who sells fish
- Faroese: fiskahandlari — person who sells fish
- Finnish: kalakauppias — person who sells fish
- French: poissonnier — person who sells fish
- French: poissonnière — person who sells fish
- French: marchand de poisson — person who sells fish
- Friulian: pessâr — person who sells fish
- Galician: peixeiro — person who sells fish
- German: Fischverkäufer — person who sells fish
- German: Fischmann m/Fischfrau — person who sells fish
- German: Fischhändler — person who sells fish
- Greek: ιχθυοπώλης (ichthyopólis) — person who sells fish
- Ancient Greek: ἰχθυοπώλης (ikhthuopṓlēs) — person who sells fish
- Haitian Creole: pwasonye — person who sells fish
- Haitian Creole: machann pwason — person who sells fish
- Irish: ceannaí éisc — person who sells fish
- Irish: díoltóir éisc — person who sells fish
- Italian: pescivendolo — person who sells fish
- Italian: pescivendola — person who sells fish
- Japanese: 魚屋 (sakanaya) — person who sells fish
- Korean: 생선 장수 (saengseon jangsu) — person who sells fish
- Central Kurdish: ماسیفرۆش (masîfiroş) — person who sells fish
- Northern Kurdish: masîfiroş — person who sells fish
- Ladino: balukchí — person who sells fish
- Latin: bolonae — person who sells fish
- Malay: tukang ikan — person who sells fish
- Norman: paîssonnyi — person who sells fish
- Norwegian Bokmål: fiskehandler — person who sells fish
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fiskehandlar — person who sells fish
- Persian: ماهیفروش (mâhi-foruš) — person who sells fish
- Plautdietsch: Feschhendla — person who sells fish
- Polish: handlarz rybami — person who sells fish
- Polish: handlarka rybami — person who sells fish
- Portuguese: peixeiro — person who sells fish
- Portuguese: peixeira — person who sells fish
- Romanian: negustor de pește — person who sells fish
- Romanian: pescar — person who sells fish
- Russian: рыботорго́вец (rybotorgóvec) — person who sells fish
- Russian: торго́вец ры́бой (torgóvec rýboj) — person who sells fish
- Spanish: pescadero — person who sells fish
- Spanish: pescadera — person who sells fish
- Swedish: fiskhandlare — person who sells fish
- Thai: คนขายปลา (kon kǎai bplaa) — person who sells fish
- Turkish: balıkçı — person who sells fish
- Ottoman Turkish: بالقجی (balıkcı) — person who sells fish
- Ukrainian: торго́вець ри́бою (torhóvecʹ rýboju) — person who sells fish
- Vietnamese: ngưởi bán cá — person who sells fish
- Volapük: fitatedan — person who sells fish
- Volapük: fitahitedan — person who sells fish
- Volapük: fitajitedan — person who sells fish
- Welsh: gwerthwr pysgod — person who sells fish
- Yiddish: פיש־הענדלער (fish-hendler) — person who sells fish
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