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Fishmarket vs Fishmonger - What's the difference?

fishmarket | fishmonger |

As nouns the difference between fishmarket and fishmonger

is that fishmarket is a market where fish is sold while fishmonger is (british) a person who sells fish (a female fishmonger can also be called a fishwife).

fishmarket

English

Alternative forms

* fish market * fish-market

Noun

(en noun)
  • A market where fish is sold.

    • See also

    * fishmonger's

    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)