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Fishmonger


Definition:

  • (n.) A dealer in fish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Morrisons is close to replicating this community-led spirit with its marketplace that includes a specialist butcher, baker and fishmonger.
  • (2) It’s a brilliant mix of backpacking, volunteering and surfing – and what’s even better is you might get a qualification at the end of it,” says Jennifer Snell, 20, from Wiltshire, who combined an office job with working as a fishmonger in Tesco to raise the money.
  • (3) The fishmongers are in their third generation,” he says.
  • (4) The fishmonger is summoned and scurries away apologetically.
  • (5) In his fishmonger's shop, Gilles Mouttet explains that in the first round of voting many like him were not aware of "the peril" of an FN victory at a time when the Socialists were backing a Communist for the departmental council seat won by Lopez and when the rightwing UMP were disengaged.
  • (6) It’s after hours at the fishmongers on Gloucester Road, Bristol , but owner Dan Stern is still busy.
  • (7) Tim Hughes would be handy to have by your side at your local fishmonger.
  • (8) It involved DNA testing on 226 products in 131 supermarkets, fishmongers and takeaways in Ireland and 95 in the UK.
  • (9) When I walk around Sheringham's two main shopping streets, the impression is only heightened: there's a Sainsbury's Local but it sits among such local shops as P&J Scotter's High Class Fishmongers, The Chocolate Box sweet shop, Bertram A Watts' bookshop and a butcher called Icarus Hines.
  • (10) The road into Wadaura is dotted with seafood restaurants, but the stench that hangs heavily over the quayside in this tiny fishing village on Japan's Pacific coast belongs not to the fishmonger, but to the abattoir.
  • (11) I stuck to supermarkets for my recipes, not wanting to assume that everyone had access to a market, a friendly fishmonger, or specialised shops to buy spices in bulk.
  • (12) Andy Theodorou, a bullet-headed fishmonger, is filleting plaice.
  • (13) 29 & 31 Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BN; 01225 448748, finecheese.co.uk Fish for Thought Not only is all their fish ethically sourced, but Cornish fishmongers Fish for Thought has won a slew of awards for its lobster, turbot, bream, scallops and many more.
  • (14) The veteran actor Timothy West has also joined the show as Carter's father Stan, a curmudgeonly and opinionated former Billingsgate fishmonger.
  • (15) You can also ask the fishmonger to prepare the red mullet for you.
  • (16) If you buy a bakers or a fishmongers or a former pub, for the good of the area it should be sold with that usage attached.
  • (17) The staff are warmly welcoming and well-drilled, and the restaurant is a great space, too – a dark, cosy and informal, with a bar running along one wall and a fishmonger's shop at the entrance.
  • (18) It certainly gives people who look for different ales a choice, and it provides a community service.” • bakeandalehouse.com , open Tues-Sun noon-2pm, 5.30pm–9pm (closed Sun eves) Ales of the Unexpected, Westbrook The newest micropub in the Thanet area opened in August 2013 in a former fishmongers in Westbrook, opposite the old Seabathing Hospital.
  • (19) I'm in the fishmonger, and he says 'What are you doing these days Mr Ratner?'
  • (20) From sex-, age-, seasonal and tribal incidence, from the incidence among different professions such as fishermen, fishmongers and cultivators, and from the differences in incidence encountered between the Busoga belt and the Samia belt, it is concluded: that nearly all women and children, most cultivators and part of the fishermen who contract sleeping sickness in these areas, become infected near their homes by G. pallidipes: this occurs mainly in the dense bush area.

Monger


Definition:

  • (n.) A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.
  • (n.) A small merchant vessel.
  • (v. t.) To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) First, Dr Collins is fear-mongering when he says that ‘lives will be lost’ as a result of our calculations.
  • (2) So far the doom-mongers, including wishful-thinking opponents of the monarchy, have been proved wrong.
  • (3) Ditto selecting the right setlist from a back catalogue that's prone to end-of-the-world doom-mongering.
  • (4) Meanwhile, those occasionally reliable rumour-mongers over at Latino Review have posited a third scenario.
  • (5) This pernicious fear-mongering is dangerous and frustrating to deal with, and its targeting of those most likely to face discrimination has led to trans issues being quietly eliminated from non-discrimination legislation before.
  • (6) CAP president Cathi Herrod is urging Brewer to sign the legislation and deriding what she called “fear-mongering” from its opponents.
  • (7) But restrictions create fertile ground for rumour-mongering.
  • (8) George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, delivered an economically illiterate, and fear-mongering, rant to the Tory conference claiming that Britain is drowning in a sea of debt.
  • (9) The chief's critics, however, say Timoney's handling of protests and gatherings in each of the cities he's served in are wrought with examples of police abuse, illegal infiltration tactics, fear-mongering and a blatant disregard for freedom of expression.
  • (10) Chancellor Angela Merkel in her new year address on Thursday asked Germans to see refugee arrivals as “an opportunity for tomorrow” and urged doubters not to follow racist hate-mongers.
  • (11) We’re bombarded with stats and figures and doom-mongering from people on the telly who we can’t connect with, but the decisions made by the people in charge affect our day-to-day wellbeing.
  • (12) He’s using fear-mongering reminiscent of Nazi Germany and Stalin.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘This is outrageous’: US Muslim leader condemns Trump’s call to ban Muslims A significant silence that had followed past outrageous statements by Trump – in which Republican elders have declined direct confrontation, and the targets of his remarks have seemed humiliated or intimidated – seemed finally shattered at the billionaire’s latest offense.
  • (13) It was an incredible turnaround from just a week before, even for the American fear-mongering machine.
  • (14) We must deal with intrigue-mongers and provocateurs.
  • (15) If they want to punish rumour-mongers, they should punish the state media, too."
  • (16) The roots of this fear-mongering are deep, and when Ebola finally landed it fell on fertile soil .
  • (17) Saving the nation was why he yoked his party to Cameron: this speech reprised his scare-mongering Greek comparisons.
  • (18) Many of these fears are a reaction to the scare-mongering of vested interest groups or a misunderstanding of how the tax will work.
  • (19) Other media have taken similar stands in public, with one private TV channel saying it intended to bar certain guests from its political programmes on charges of being “rumour mongers” – parlance for government critics.
  • (20) Acta 440, 765--771) and with those inferred from the decay at 4.2 degrees K of the triplet-triplet absorption after picosecond excitation (Parson, W.W. and Monger, T.G.

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