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1) a woman who sells fish2) a foul-mouthed coarse, abusive woman3) the female wife or consort of a homosexual male (U.S. slang, mid-1900s onward)
Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.
fish wife
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fish-wife — 1) a woman who sells fish; 2) a foul mouthed coarse, abusive woman 3) the female wife or consort of a homosexual male (U.S. slang, mid 1900s onward) … Dictionary of ichthyology
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