1. 1潑婦(舊時本指賣魚的婦人)

    This is a rude, old-fashioned name for a woman who shouts a lot and is often in a bad temper. It started as a job word: a fishwife was a woman who sold fish in the market. Those sellers had to call out over the noise, and English later turned the word into an insult, as if a loud angry woman “sounds like a fishwife.” Though actually, the wife piece is the old word for a woman, not “married partner” — you meet the same piece in midwife. You will almost never hear someone mean the old job now. Do not use this of a real person; it is , and it also sounds like a line from an old play.

組成fish + wife, from Middle English fysshewyfe. Wife here is the old word for a woman, not a married partner. Same -wife as in midwife.

同家族的字

  • midwifethe -wife is the old word for a woman, not a married partner
  • housewifesame old -wife: a woman of the house

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

fishwifenoun

  • 1

    archaicA woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger.

    • [S]he was angry with herself; and, for that, sang the more loudly the most wicked and risqué of her slang songs, that gave the morals of a Messalina in the language of a fish-wife, and yet had an inalienable, mischievous, contagious, dauntless French grace in it withal.
  • 2

    derogatoryA vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice.

  • 3

    derogatoryA person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene.

  • 4

    slangThe wife of a homosexual man.

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