Monger

/ˈmʌŋɡə/ · noun

Meaning

Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word..

Definitions by Sense

1. Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word.
2. (obsolete) Clipping of whoremonger (“a frequent customer of whores”).
3. To deal in, peddle, or sell (something).
4. (figurative) To promote (something, especially an undesirable thing); to peddle.
5. (nautical, obsolete) A small seagoing vessel used for fishing.

Example Sentences

Here vvas no ſubtle device to get a VVench. / This Chanon [i.e., canon, member of the clergy] has a brave pate of his ovvn! / A ſhaven pate! and a right monger, y' vaith!

There were Mongols hawking sheepskins and Chinese vending calendars and pocket calculators, North Koreans flogging jewelry and Vietnamese mongering shirts and leather jackets.

She [Grace Kelly] was beautiful and elegant but, above all, good. […] Not even Hedda Hopper could monger scandal in her regard.

[T]he paper towel industry has funded or promoted a rash of studies claiming that hand dryers turn bathrooms into mosh pits of pathogens. […] Once these fears have been mongered, their spread is irresistible.

[C]erteyne Fyſhermen that go a trawlyng for fyſhe in Catches or mongers, and dradgies for Oyſters about the ſandes, […]

monger: a small sea-vessel used by fishermen.

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• mongers
• mongering
• mongered

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