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English
Etymology
From monger + -er.
Noun
mongerer (plural mongerers)
- (proscribed) Alternative form of monger.
- One who sells a particular commodity.
1893, Marcus Clarke, Chidiock Tichbourne Or The Catholic Conspiracy, page 44:Come old mutton mongerer, despatch! despatch!
2011 December 21, Pluffmud (username), “Mock lobster”, in Allrecipes.com, 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, 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?
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