Meaning
3 sensesChiefly preceded by a descriptive word.
A dealer or trader in a specific commodity.
Händler, Krämer, Verkäufer
(figuratively)A person promoting something, especially an undesirable thing.
(obsolete, transitive)A small seagoing vessel used for fishing.
- someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
Examples
4 sentencesOff with the head of duplicate-mongers.
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
On the pavement below, a foot passer might squeeze by a costard monger’s cart, but two carts abreast could not pass.
Radical Zionists like fear-mongering.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
The noun is derived from Middle English mongere, mangere (“dealer, merchant, trader”), froThe 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:
Origin uncertain, possibly from monger (“dealer or trader in a specific commodity”) (etymology 1); or related to Middle English mangbot (“type of fishing boat used on the Thames”).
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