Do You Know Any Fish Wives....?

Question

......Are they Fish too ?

Answer 1

They are not quite fish, but its sometimes hard to tell the difference.

The old ones do tell old wives tales.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

I think I once ate a fish wive for dinner

Answer 4

Actually I do!!

There's an old lady in my street who used to work in the fishing industry up in Aberdeen many many many years ago now. She's really nice to speak with though I would not say that she's a fish...

Thank you,
^_^

Answer 5

I don't know any fish wives, but I do know a lobster mans wife? Does that make her a crustacean wife?

Answer 6

usually fish wives come from fishing community's that talk and gossip ,i don't know any and not sure they still exist

Answer 7

Like half fish half woman? No..but I think it would be interesting to meet a person like that. She could teach me how to swim faster! I'm not kidding either.

Answer 8

Yep, one of my neighbours is a right old fish wife and she is always fishing for gossip.

Answer 9

I think that 'Fishwives' are a term used for a woman who worked in the fish industry as filleters in Britain. 'Wifey' is often used as a term for woman, usually 'of a certain age', in parts of Scotland.

...so No.

Answer 10

More of a whale than a fish.