I was called a fish wife today at work but I don't know what it is could someone please tell me?
2006-08-25 12:35:40 · 33 answers · asked by clair 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
now that everyone has told you what it means, please go back to work and pulverise the little **** who said this to you. and throw in a lot of vulgar abuse while you're at it. now you have a reputation to protect. you go show them what TRUE fis-wifery is about.
2006-08-27 05:10:24 · answer #1 · answered by freudianslipper 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Fish Wife
2016-09-29 21:43:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A fish wife, was a wife's of the fisherman , they use to gut and clean the fish, that there men folks brought back from the sea , this was in Newcastle on the docks about the 1930 , these women where really not what you would call Lades.
2006-08-25 12:50:59 · answer #3 · answered by Ron W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone who is married to a right Cod.
No it is someone with a big gob , common and like something out of the tv show Shamless.
Kat Slater is a bit of a fish wife.
2006-08-25 12:41:08 · answer #4 · answered by Harley D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fishwives were working-class women who sold fish from baskets along the quays of fishing villages, touting their wares at the top of their lungs. (Loud and obnoxious.) Sweet Molly Malone aside, this was not considered a reputable occupation for women, who too readily picked up the rough talk of sailors, and gained a bad reputation for both the timbre and content of their speech.
As a "fishhusband", you could expect to be nagged, cursed and swore at day and night over every little thing.
"Fishwife" is definitely not a complement!!
2006-08-25 12:40:25 · answer #5 · answered by Wolfie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Y a its a " screaming fish wife"
Id take it as a compliment myself.
Picture your self standing on the dock snapping orders at your sailor husband, and crew.
Takes a strong woman to do that, be in command and all.
2006-08-25 13:44:40 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the wife of a fish.
2006-08-26 07:25:44 · answer #7 · answered by ada wong 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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What is a Fish Wife?
I was called a fish wife today at work but I don't know what it is could someone please tell me?
2015-08-12 20:02:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were woman who not only sold their fish they also gutted them when they were landed. They had to be loud and obnoxious as they fish they sold for a pittance had to keep a whole family feed, clothed and sheltered. These woman worked in cold uncomfortable circumstances, but had no choice if they wanted to "survive"
2006-08-26 12:49:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A fish husbands mrs.lol!
2006-08-27 05:22:20 · answer #10 · answered by sioux 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must have provoked someone for you to have been called a fish wife.....it is a derogatory term and veiled....the person who called you this obviously wanted to insult you but couched it more delicately than openly swearing at you.........as already mentioned in the answers above they regard your conduct as loud and possibly abusive and they were not prepared to stoop to that level themselves while voicing their opinion of you.......Perhaps it is time for you to change the way you speak to or treat others.......
2006-08-26 06:42:29 · answer #11 · answered by zararedbird 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋