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mongery

noun

Etymology

From monger + -y.

  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 mongery — “monger + y”

Definitions

  1. The process of selling something of a specific type

    The process of selling something of a specific type; the business of a monger.

    • To this the plaintiff replied that that was true, but that the term of which he was possessed was created four years before the defendant was possessed of his workshops and before he carried on his iron-mongery work there.
    • However, while there may be some truth in this opinion, it is an undeniable fact that prostitution poses a great threat to family peace and that the cases of marital dissolution multiply due to prostitute mongery.

  2. The process of promoting or spreading something undesirable.

    • Alehouses were more frequented, drunkenness more general, tale-mongery and sedition, the vices of sedentary idleness, prevailed, while a fanatical gloom was spreading over the country.
    • For you have the whole Borough, with all its love-makings and scandal-mongeries, contentions and contentments, as in miniature, and could cover it all with your hat.
    • The licentiousness of paganism outside of the immorality of the flesh was profit mongery and its twin Sister, interest, or as it was then called, usury and slavery.

  3. That which is sold by a monger.

    • A building contract provided that all iron mongery was to be furnished by the owner.
    • Hardware store gottem from the mongery dealer.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The building where a monger conducts business.

      • Although there are 75 seats and a kind of underwater flotsam decor in which fancy cocktails are served, the humble beauty of the mongery remains in the freshest fish served above sea level.
      • At the door of the mongery he kissed his wife farewell: “It would not be proper for you to deal with the sheriff. I believe he'll come. You watch for the blue flag, too.”

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for mongery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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