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mon·ger

(mŭng′gər, mŏng′-)

1. A dealer in a specific commodity. Often used in combination: an ironmonger.

2. A person promoting something undesirable or discreditable. Often used in combination: a scandalmonger; a warmonger.

tr.v. mon·gered, mon·ger·ing, mon·gers

To peddle.

[Middle English mongere, from Old English mangere, from Latin mangō, dealer in slaves, probably of Greek origin.]

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monger

(ˈmʌŋɡə)

1. (Commerce) (in combination except in archaic use) a trader or dealer: ironmonger.

2. (in combination) a promoter of something unpleasant: warmonger.

[Old English mangere, ultimately from Latin mangō dealer; compare Old High German mangari]

ˈmongering n, adj

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mon•ger

(ˈmʌŋ gər, ˈmɒŋ-)

n.

1. a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usu. used in combination): a gossipmonger.

2. Chiefly Brit. a dealer in or trader of a commodity (usu. used in combination): fishmonger.

v.t.

3. to sell; hawk.

[before 1000; Middle English (n.); Old English mangere=mang(ian) to trade, act as a monger (« Latin mangō salesman) + -ere -er¹]

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Noun	1.	monger - someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold bargainer, dealer, trader art dealer - a dealer in works of art requiring esthetic evaluation barterer - a trader who exchanges goods and not money bibliopole, bibliopolist - a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) cheesemonger - someone who sells cheese barrow-boy, barrow-man, costermonger - a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow cutler - a dealer in cutlery draper - a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods) fence - a dealer in stolen property fishmonger, fishwife - someone who sells fish horse trader - a hard bargainer hardwareman, ironmonger - someone who sells hardware; "in England they call a hardwareman an ironmonger" mercer - a dealer in textiles (especially silks) merchandiser, merchant - a businessperson engaged in retail trade seedman, seedsman - a dealer in seeds slopseller, slop-seller - a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing stamp dealer - a dealer in stamps (whose customers are stamp collectors) stock trader - someone who buys and sells stock shares
Verb	1.	monger - sell or offer for sale from place to place hawk, huckster, peddle, vend, pitch sell, trade, deal - do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood; "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes"

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Some of these fables, to my shame be it spoken, might possibly be traced back to my own veracious self; and if any passages of the present tale should startle the reader's faith, I must be content to bear the stigma of a fiction monger.

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Lawrence has been seen to go that way once or twice of an evening - and the village gossips say he goes to pay his addresses to the strange lady, and the scandal- mongers have greedily seized the rumour, to make it the basis of their own infernal structure.'

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