scaremonger

English

Etymology

From scare +‎ monger.

Noun

scaremonger (plural scaremongers)

1. Someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people.

   Synonyms: alarmist, fearmonger, panicmonger

   • 1909, William Le Queux, Spies of the Kaiser‎^[1]:

     I have refrained from giving actual names and dates, for obvious reasons, and have therefore been compelled, even at the risk of being again denounced as a scaremonger, to present the facts in the form of fiction—fiction which, I trust, will point its own patriotic moral.

Translations

alarmist — see also alarmist

• Bulgarian: паникьор m (panikjor)
• Czech: šiřitel(ka) poplašných zpráv m or f
• French: alarmiste (fr) m or f
• German: Panikmacher m, Panikmacherin f, Angstmacher m, , Angstmacherin f
• Polish: panikarz m, panikarka f
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• Romanian: alarmist (ro) m
• Russian: паникёр (ru) m (panikjór)
• Ukrainian: паніке́р m (panikér), паніке́рка f (panikérka)

Verb

scaremonger (third-person singular simple present scaremongers, present participle scaremongering, simple past and past participle scaremongered)

1. To spread worrying rumours.
   • 2000, “Idioteque”, in Kid A, performed by Radiohead:

     We're not scaremongering / This is really happening, happening

Anagrams

• macrogenres