fishmonger

fish +‎ monger

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃˌmʌŋɡ.ə(ɹ)/

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fishmonger (plural fishmongers)

1. (Britain) A person who sells fish. (A female fishmonger can also be called a fishwife.)
2. (Britain, 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, 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, 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.

3. (archaic) A pimp.

   "Excellent well; you are a fishmonger." - William Shakespeare, said by Hamlet to Polonius. (Act 2, Scene 2)