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mongeress

noun

Etymology

From monger + -ess.

  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
  10. suffixed as mongeress — “monger + ess”

Definitions

  1. Female equivalent of monger.

    • The hysterical activities of the charity-mongeresses have incidentally been avoided, and their energies diverted to occupations less destructive to life.
    • “Whom God has joined together”—i.e., what the marriage-mongeress has coupled, &c.
    • A salty style surged on a tide of the robust and ribald: “thinkerless unspeakables,” “Improved Order of Red Baboons,” “the embullioned and behorred spectacularians,” “a splayfooted mongeress of raucous rhyme,” “the glorified cuspidorarii.”

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