fishwife in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for fishwife in the English»Spanish Dictionary

fishwife <pl fishwives> [Am ˈfɪʃˌwaɪf, Brit ˈfɪʃwʌɪf] N inf, pej

fishwife

verdulera f inf, pej

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rabanera

fishwife inf, pej

habla como una verdulera inf

she talks like a real fishwife inf

fishwife in the PONS Dictionary

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verdulera

fishwife

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English

She shouts and screams like an old fishwife.

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Here, a blind boy steals a herring from a shrieking fishwife.

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For a list of them, ask any fishwife.

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I can cry one minute and swear like a fishwife the next.

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The story follows the fortunes of a young fishwife living at the turn of the 20th century.

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Virago, fishwife and shrew are near synonyms for termagant in this sense.

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