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Shop vs Fishmonger - What's the difference?

shop | fishmonger |

As nouns the difference between shop and fishmonger

is that shop is an establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well while fishmonger is (british) a person who sells fish (a female fishmonger can also be called a fishwife).

As a verb shop

is to visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.

As an interjection shop

is (used to attract the services of a shop assistant).

shop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
  • * Cowper
    • From shop' to ' shop / Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks / The polished counter.
  • A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A tailor called me in his shop .
  • An automobile mechanic's workplace.
  • Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk'', ''closed shop'' and ''shop floor .
  • A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
  • (business, computing) an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively.
    • Our company is mostly a Java shop .
  • An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
    • This is where I do my weekly shop .

    Synonyms

    * (establishment that sells goods) boutique, retail outlet, store (US); see also * (place where things are crafted) atelier, studio, workshop * (sense, automobile mechanic's workplace) garage * (workplace) office, place of work, workplace * (wood shop) carpentry, wood shop, woodwork * (metal shop) metal shop, metalwork

    Related terms

    * shoppe

    Derived terms

    * beauty shop * bucket shop * charity shop * chip shop * close up shop * coffee shop * cop shop * corner shop * food shop * gift shop * like a bull in a china shop * one-stop shop * op shop * pawn shop * pet shop * Photoshop® * pound shop * repair shop * sex shop * shoe shop * shopaholic * shop assistant * shopfloor * shopfront * shopgirl * shophouse * shopkeep * shopkeeper * shopman * shop right * shop steward * shop talk * shopward * shopwards * shopworn * shut up shop * swap shop * sweet shop, sweet-shop, sweetshop * wood shop * workshop

    Verb

    (shopp)
  • To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.
    • I went shopping early, before the Christmas rush.
    He’s shopping for clothes .
  • (transitive, slang, chiefly, UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
    • He shopped his mates in to the police.
  • (internet slang) Shorthand for photoshop ; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.

    • Synonyms

    * (to report a criminal to authority) grass up (slang)

    Derived terms

    * shop around * shopper * shop till you drop * window shopping

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (Used to attract the services of a shop assistant)

    • Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words

    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)