In the world of fishing, a fisherman is the one who catches the fish and brings them to the market, a fishmonger is the who buys and sells fish, and fishwife, naturally a woman as the name suggests, who actually sells fish at a fish market, usually shouting loudly to attract the customers or arguing with the customers over the price to shut them up!

Those who are jealous of the super model Sarah say that before becoming a super model, she was a fishwife and that is the reason why she stinks of fish!

In some Asian countries, fishwives and female fishmongers are given interest free loans so that they can survive and feed their children even when their husbands, mostly fishermen, who spend their earning on alcohol and women.

Some woman politicians are called ‘fishwives’ whenever they question the authorities of their misdeeds.