Monger
['mʌŋɡə]
Definition
(n.) A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.
(n.) A small merchant vessel.
(v. t.) To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.
Typist: Lycurgus
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Rare, except in composition.] Dealer, trader, trafficker.
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Definition
n. a trader: a dealer chiefly in composition sometimes depreciatory.—v.t. to trade in.
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Examples
- The elderly gentleman turns out, sir, to be a most respectable master iron-monger in Eastcheap. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a fish-monger and a tide-waiter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Still, though thus pitiless in moral anatomy, she was no scandal-monger. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Are the lads of the village--and the ladies--such scandal-mongers? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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