fishmonger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person whose trade is selling fish and seafood

   The fishmonger cleaned the trout before wrapping it for the customer.

2. 2
   noun

   a shop where fish and seafood are sold, especially in the possessive form fishmonger's

   She stopped at the fishmonger's for a piece of fresh salmon.

From Middle English fisshemonger, a compound of fish + monger. Monger descends from Old English mangere ("merchant, dealer"), so the word straightforwardly names a person who trades in fish; the shop sense developed from the trader's premises.

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