monger

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English

Etymology

From Middle English mongere, mangere, from Old English mangere (“merchant, trader, dealer”), from Proto-West Germanic *mangārī, from Latin mangō (“dealer, trader”), perhaps from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon, “contrivance, means of enchantment”), from Proto-Indo-European *mang- (“to embellish, dress, trim”).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ʌŋɡə(ɹ)

Noun

monger (plural mongers)

  1. (chiefly in combination) A dealer in a specific commodity.
    costermonger, fishmonger, ironmonger
    • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], lines 369-72:
      If I could meet
      that fancy-monger, I would give him some good
      counsel, for he seems to have the quotidian of love
      upon him.
    • 2005, Los Angeles Magazine (volume 50, number 11, page 111)
      For the freshest wild catch, ask your monger when the fish are running.
  2. (in combination) A person promoting something undesirable.
    warmonger, sleazemonger, scaremonger
  3. A small sea vessel.
    • 1790, Wilson Lt. Robert (RN), The Seaman's Manual
      monger: a small sea-vessel used by fishermen.
  4. Clipping of whoremonger.

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Verb

monger (third-person singular simple present mongers, present participle mongering, simple past and past participle mongered)

  1. (transitive, British) To sell or peddle something
  2. (transitive) To promote something undesirable.
    • 2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Once these fears have been mongered, their spread is irresistible.

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