Virago, fishwife and shrew are near synonyms for termagant in this sense.
His pictures illustrate the various strata of society; banquets or meetings of officers, guildsmen, local councilmen from mayors to clerks, itinerant players and singers, gentlefolk, fishwives and tavern heroes.
The fishwives got their way.
All are variously famous for fishwives, press gangs, ships, boats and sailors, and beautiful scenery.
The story follows the fortunes of a young fishwife living at the turn of the 20th century.
All we want to do is to exempt fishwives or people who carry fish in baskets for sale, but who cannot carry a weighing machine, too.
If some leaders of nations behave like raucous fishwives, it is all that much more difficult for the family to live happily ever after.
I do not think it was as faulty as his analogy between landlubbers and fishwives in his parish council.
