fancymonger

English

Etymology

fancy +‎ monger

Noun

fancymonger (plural fancymongers)

1. (obsolete) A lovemonger; a whimsical lover.
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     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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fancymonger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)