Flour-monger
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Flour-monger is a noun meaning A seller of flour.
Meaning
A seller of flour.
Example Sentences
“You first,” he said sharply, pointing at the flour-monger.
[…]I heard a ruffian behind saying, “E un farinajuolo” (“He is a meal-monger,” or rather “flour-monger”).
Finally, the department of agriculture maintains practically a year-round surveillance to keep the bread-flour mongers from their greedy grabs.
Has Master Jack forgiven you for preferring a short, stoop-shouldered flour[-]monger with hands like boiled puddings to his tall, elegant, noble self, whose white hands have never seen a day’s work?
Word Forms
- flour-mongers
- flourmonger
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include flourman, breadseller, breadmonger, mealmonger, buttermonger, miller.
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