The word "fishwife" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to a female fishmonger or the wife of a fisherman. For example: "The fishwife was selling fresh seafood at the dockside market."
The Daily Mirror, another tabloid, called her a "vile fishwife"; the Daily Mail, a third, went for "foulmouthed ex-shoplifter".Miss Goody can perhaps console herself by contemplating a personal fortune, estimated at £8m ($15.7m), earned from television appearances, tabloid interviews, an autobiography, fitness DVDs and a perfume.
Not quite Frances Barber's "ranting" (Spencer) "old fishwife" (Walker).
Heeling hard, my jib flaps like a fishwife hanging the laundry and I feel desperate not to let Venus down.
When his mood darkens like thunder over his grace-and-favour manor in the Chilterns, he will curse like a fishwife and strike like an adder.
Morano, a reliable font of aggression (she was once filmed harassing a Senegalese-born street vender, telling him, "We can't welcome all the Senegalese"), is lampooned in the French media as a poissonnière, or fishwife.
In Part 2, we turn to the story of glamorous and inaccessible Mathilde — who, we learn, was born in France, as Aurélie, her mother a fishwife in Nantes, her father a stonemason.
One is a girl from West Lothian whose fishwife-next-door looks made her an unlikely hit on a TV talent show; the other is a billionaire superstar from the Bronx.
I said to him, "Before you go any further [this in a girlie-flirty voice] I have to wear high heels, because... [she descends into broad East London] I'm a midget and they'll find me out".' Even in normal conversation, Windsor routinely trips through her comic vocal spectrum: theatrically, huskily grand to fishwife-sharp to sex kitten sweet.
Producers at the award-winning Red Production Company, which is behind dramas including Happy Valley, have bought the rights to a book by Hull-based author Dr Brian W Lavery that tells the remarkable story of the fishwives and their formidable leader, Lillian "Big Lil" Bilocca.
They were the gutsy northern fishwives who took on the might of the British establishment in the wake of the nation's worst trawler disaster – and fought to improve safety in an industry that was killing their men.
Other contenders for the title include Lily Allen's cover of Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know", 11-year-old Jack Topping's "Tomorrow", "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" by The Big Reunion and "When The Boat Comes In" by The Fishwives Choir.
