mongerer
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
mongerer (plural mongerers)
- (proscribed) Alternative form of monger.
- One who sells a particular commodity.
- 1893, Marcus Clarke, Chidiock Tichbourne Or The Catholic Conspiracy[1], page 44:
- Come old mutton mongerer, despatch! despatch!
- 2011 December 21, Pluffmud (username), “Mock lobster”, in Allrecipes.com[2], archived from the original on 16 June 2019:
- Monkfish, the poor man's lobster, according to my fish mongerer, tasted very similar to lobster almost better in my eyes.
- One who promotes something undesirable.
- 1894, A.G. Boone, “General Culture as an Element in Professional Training”, in Joint Documents of the State of Michigan[3], volume 3, page 43:
- What is wanted primarily, shall I say, in the teacher, is that he be a man or that she be a woman, not a method mongerer. […] By method is meant the law of the mind’s movement. This is a narrower field than that of psychology and even more fruitful of suggestion to the teacher.
- 1918, George Franklin Wisner, The Wisners in America and Their Kindred, page 211:
- He was also an orator of no mean ability. He was not a phrase mongerer, but a man of ideas, and capable of presenting them in a clear and concise manner.
- 2002, Jonathan Goldstein, Max Wallace, Schmelvis: In Search of Elvis Presley’s Jewish Roots, →ISBN, page 82:
- Are you entertaining whores with my gelt? Is my nephew a mongerer of whores?
- One who sells a particular commodity.