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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who sells fish; a fishwife.
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Examples
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They had a language as distinct to them as ours to us; and their women were as noisy and as fond of disputation as any fish-fag in
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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You should have seen Amilcare's face when this was reported to him; he rated his lovely Molly like a fish-fag.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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People looked upon her as they would have looked upon a fish-fag, and did not like to commit themselves by quarrelling with her.
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Oh! how he hated the house; how he hated the blear-eyed, cross-grained, dirty, impudent fish-fag of an old woman who opened the door for him; how he hated Mr. Jabesh M'Ruen, to whom he now came a supplicant for assistance, and how, above all, he hated himself for being there.
The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848
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"There, you swab -- take that; I am yard-arm and yard-arm with you, you piratical-looking craft -- you lubberly, buccaneering son of a fish-fag."
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People looked upon her as they would have looked upon a fish-fag, and did not like to commit themselves by quarrelling with her.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 04 Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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People looked upon her as they would have looked upon a fish-fag, and did not like to commit themselves by quarrelling with her.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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Oh! how he hated the house; how he hated the blear-eyed, cross-grained, dirty, impudent fish-fag of an old woman who opened the door for him; how he hated Mr. Jabesh M’Ruen, to whom he now came a supplicant for assistance, and how, above all, he hated himself for being there.
The Three Clerks 2004
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a very meritorious act in so doing; -- there was the punch, all the other fellows were gone away, somebody must have drunk it, or that young reprobate Shrimp would have got hold of it; and I promised the venerable fish-fag his mother to take especial care of his what do ye call
Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil Frank E. Smedley 1835
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Irus was very angry and answered, “You filthy glutton, you run on trippingly like an old fish-fag.
The Odyssey 1900
chained_bear commented on the word fish-fag
"A female hawker of fish; a fishwife." --A Sea of Words
"'...today's disgraceful exhibition when I came on deck and found you wrangling like a couple of fish-fags and the ship looking like Bartholomew fair...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Truelove, 182
March 11, 2008
jpmaher commented on the word fish-fag
William Banks Fortescue painting
http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_220157/William-Banks-Fortescue/The-Fish-Fag
February 22, 2011