Old Photograph Fishwives Peterhead Scotland

Old photograph of fishwives in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A fishwife was a woman who sold fish. The word wife meant woman rather than married woman. Often the wives and daughters of fishermen, fish wives were notoriously loud and often foul mouthed, as noted in the expression, To swear like a fishwife. One reason for their outspokenness was that their wares were highly perishable and so lost value if not sold quickly.



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