English

fishfag

From fish + fag.

A compound of fish + fag

Proto-Indo-European *piskós

Proto-Germanic *fiskaz

Proto-West Germanic *fisk

Old English fisċ

Middle English fisch ‘an animal that inhabits the water or the meat…’

English fish

English end ‘remnant’

English fag

Today it means

noun Synonym of fishwife (“female fishmonger”).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.