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fishmonger

0What do you call a person who sells seafood for a living? Fishmonger sounds archaic to me.02br
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0In the UK we still call them fishmongers. It is an old word,and there are not a lot of 'mongers' words that are still used, but it hasn't been replaced by a new word. 0-

— Nona the brit

  • 0In the UK we still call them fishmongers.
  • It is an old word,and there are not a lot of 'mongers' words that are still used, but it hasn't been replaced by a new word.
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0In the UK we still call them fishmongers. It is an old word,and there are not a lot of 'mongers' words that are still used, but it hasn't been replaced by a new word. 02br
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00 I can only think of ironmonger (but that is becoming obsolete because you just don't really get those shops any more) and warmonger!0-
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0Thanks Nona. Those who work in the seafood section of a supermarket are also called fishmongers?02br
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00By the way, I have no idea what an ironmonger is. My best guess is a blacksmith. Please correct me if I'm wrong.0-
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0No, a fishmongers is a whole shop just selling fish. In a supermarket you usually call it the 'fish counter'.02br
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00Ironmonger - sold all sorts of useful household bits and pieces, like buckets, nails and screws, sink plungers, odds and ends of tools and equipment and 'stuff' that you need but isn't furniture. I guess they used to be mainly metal things like cooking pot
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0Thanks Nona. I wonder whether there are fishmongers in the US and what they call ironmonger. 0-
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