different between fishmonger vs fishmongery

English

Etymology

fish +? monger

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f???m???.?(?)/

Noun

fishmonger (plural fishmongers)

1. (Britain) A person who sells fish.
2. (Britain, rare) A fishmonger's, a fishmonger's shop: a shop that sells fish.
   • 1931, Grace Hegger Lewis, Half a Loaf,^[1] 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)

Synonyms

• (person who sells fish): fishman, (formal, rare) ichthyopolist

Hyponyms

• (person who sells fish): (female): fishmongeress (fishmongress), fishwife, fishwoman, piscatrix (historical)

Translations

English

Noun

fishmongery (countable and uncountable, plural fishmongeries)

1. (uncountable) The trade of a fishmonger.
2. A fishmonger's shop.