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monger

noun
/ˈmʌŋɡə/UK/ˈmʌŋɡəɹ/US

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English mongere, mangere (“dealer, merchant, trader”), from Old English mangere (“dealer, merchant, trader”), from Proto-West Germanic *mangārī (“dealer, merchant, monger”), from Latin mangō (“dealer, trader”) + Proto-West Germanic *-ārī (suffix forming agent nouns, especially denoting occupations). The further etymology of mangō is uncertain; the following possibilities have been suggested: * From Ancient Greek μαγγανεύω (manganeúō, “to use charms or philtres; to cheat, play tricks; to dress food artificially to make it appear better”), from μάγγᾰνον (mángănon, “means of bewitching, charm, philtre”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meng- (“to dress, embellish, trim”); or from Arabic ن ج ل (n j l, root relating to pouring out or thrusting)) + -εύω (-eúō, suffix forming denominative verbs of activity or condition). * From Latin *manicō, *manigō (“deal, trade; to handle, manage (?)”), from manus (“hand”); further etymology uncertain, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”), or *mon-u-. The verb is either derived from the noun, or is a back-formation from mongering (adjective or noun).

  1. derived from *(s)meh₂-✻ — “to beckon, signal”
  2. derived from *manicō✻
  3. derived from ن ج ل
  4. derived from μαγγανεύω — “to use charms or philtres; to cheat, play tricks; to dress food artificially to make it appear better”
  5. derived from *-ārī✻
  6. derived from mangō — “dealer, trader”
  7. inherited from *mangārī✻ — “dealer, merchant, monger”
  8. inherited from mangere — “dealer, merchant, trader”
  9. inherited from mongere

Definitions

  1. Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word.

    • [S]ometime one rich munger or other, buying up a commoditie, and bringing it vvholly into his ovvne hands for to have the monopolie of it, raiſeth the market, and enhaunceth the price: […]
    • With Cracken the attorney, and Mundell the quack, / Send Willie the monger to hell with a smack.
    • For the freshest wild catch, ask your monger when the fish are running.

  2. Clipping of whoremonger (“a frequent customer of whores”).

    • 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!

  3. To deal in, peddle, or sell (something).

    • There were Mongols hawking sheepskins and Chinese vending calendars and pocket calculators, North Koreans flogging jewelry and Vietnamese mongering shirts and leather jackets.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To promote (something, especially an undesirable thing)

      To promote (something, especially an undesirable thing); to peddle.

      • 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.

    2. A small seagoing vessel used for fishing.

      • [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.

    3. A surname.

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Derived

mong, mongeress, mongering, mongery, mongerer

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA