Meanings
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1
noun
a person whose trade is selling fish and seafood
The fishmonger cleaned the trout before wrapping it for the customer.
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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.
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Etymology
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.