deathmonger

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

death +‎ monger

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛθmʌŋɡə(ɹ)/, /ˈdɛθmʊŋɡə/

Noun[edit]

deathmonger (plural deathmongers)

  1. One who peddles death; a murderer of many.
    • 1990, Nat Segaloff, Hurricane Billy: the stormy life and films of William Friedkin:
      So what if arms dealers are money-grabbing deathmongers? This is a revelation?
    • 2002, Reuven P Bulka, Modern folk Judaism: the reality and the challenge:
      And then there were those who died and were martyred in the struggle to maintain a Jewish lifestyle, murdered at the hands of deathmongers, pillagers []
    • 2006, John Biggins, The Two-Headed Eagle:
      Having babies spits in the eye of the Ludendorffs and Kaiser Wilhelms and the Krupps and all the other deathmongers who'd kill the lot of us if they could.