boroughmonger

B3O1R1O1U1G2H4M3O1N1G2E1R1

noun

In the unreformed House of Commons, one who bought or sold the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

Scrabble 22
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounboroughmonger (plural boroughmongers)

plural boroughmongers

  1. historicalIn the unreformed House of Commons, one who bought or sold the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

    Whig and radical newspapers pilloried them as allies of boroughmongers, maintainers of graft and corruption and bribery, enemies of liberty and the civil rights of Englishmen.

    1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 26

Origin

From borough + monger.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

boroughmonger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boroughmonger

MLA

“boroughmonger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boroughmonger. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boroughmonger,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boroughmonger.

Source: boroughmonger on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.