Translation for "fish-wives" to spanish

Fish-wives

noun

• pescadera
• verdulera

Translation examples

pescadera noun

Are ye soldiers or fish-wives?
¿Sois soldados o pescaderas?

Fish wives give us all a bad name, she thought.
Las pescaderas gritonas nos dan mala fama a todas, pensó.

verdulera noun

They were like an innumerable crowd of fish—wives on the largest grandstand in the world, breaking out into private disputes, eating out of paper bags, chipping the referee, singing comic songs, admonishing their children and complaining of their husbands.
Era como una muchedumbre innumerable de verduleras en la mayor tribuna del mundo, dedicadas todo el rato a discutir, comer sin interrupciones, tomarle el pelo al arbitro, cantar canciones cómicas, reñir a sus hijos y quejarse de sus maridos.