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Butcher vs Fishmonger - What's the difference?

butcher | fishmonger |

As a proper noun butcher

is for a butcher.

As a noun fishmonger is

(british) a person who sells fish (a female fishmonger can also be called a fishwife).

butcher

English

(wikipedia butcher)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
  • * 1900', , Chapter I,
    • He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
  • (by extension) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Butcher of an innocent child.
  • (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
  • (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

    • Derived terms

    * * butcher's hook * pork butcher

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
  • To kill brutally.
  • To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
    • The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".

    Synonyms

    * kill, slaughter * (kill brutally) massacre, slay * murder

    fishmonger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A person who sells fish. (A female fishmonger can also be called a fishwife.)
  • (British, rare) A fishmonger's, a fishmonger's shop: a shop that sells fish.
  • * 1931 , Grace Hegger Lewis, Half a Loaf , H. Liveright (publisher), page 225:
    • And Susan, sure of this inevitable answer, would ask Cook to pop into the fishmonger for a nice bit of salmon,
  • * 1990 , Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Light Years , Simon and Schuster (1995), ISBN 9780671527938, page 294:
    • A nice woman at the fishmonger in Earl’s Court Road—she had to walk miles to find a fish shop—told her how to cook the fillets of plaice she bought.
  • * 2007 , Leslie Ann Bosher, To the Manor Drawn , Murdoch Books, ISBN 9781921259890, page 157:
    • Cornish peppered mackerel, smoked haddock, Scottish herring and pearl-white skate wings are all laid on a bed of crushed ice at the fishmonger .
  • (archaic) A pimp.
    • "Excellent well; you are a fishmonger ." - William Shakespeare, said by Hamlet to Polonius. (Act 2, Scene 2)