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scandalmongery

noun

Etymology

From scandalmonger + -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. compounded as scandalmonger — “scandal + monger”
  11. suffixed as scandalmongery — “scandalmonger + y”

Definitions

  1. The act of listening to and telling scandalous rumors.

    • And I fear scandalmongery. People would spread malicious tales and calumnies about me.

  2. A scandalous rumor that is spread in such a manner.

    • You must own their lot has not fallen in a fair ground, and as far as I can make out, although their visits are productive of a terrible amount of gossip and scandalmongery, they have never been found out in thieving or roguery.”
    • In consequence of this scandalmongery, all Parrots were forbidden by the aerial powers to live on Ono, and it has since then been of common knowledge that any that flew that way died shortly after arrival.
    • No evidence supports this scandalmongery.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scandalmongery. 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