mongerer

plural mongerers

1. Alternative form of monger.
   1. proscribedOne who sells a particular commodity.

      Come old mutton mongerer, despatch! despatch!

      1893, Marcus Clarke, Chidiock Tichbourne Or The Catholic Conspiracy, page 44

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      Monkfish, the poor man's lobster, according to my fish mongerer, tasted very similar to lobster almost better in my eyes.

      2011 December 21, Pluffmud (username), “Mock lobster”, in Allrecipes.com, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2019

   2. proscribedOne who promotes something undesirable.

      Are you entertaining whores with my gelt? Is my nephew a mongerer of whores?

      2002, Jonathan Goldstein, Max Wallace, Schmelvis: In Search of Elvis Presley’s Jewish Roots, →ISBN, page 82

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      What is wanted primarily, shall I say, in the teacher, is that he be a man or that she be a woman, not a method mongerer.[…] By method is meant the law of the mind’s movement. This is a narrower field than that of psychology and even more fruitful of suggestion to the teacher.

      1894, A.G. Boone, “General Culture as an Element in Professional Training”, in Joint Documents of the State of Michigan, volume 3, page 43

      He was also an orator of no mean ability. He was not a phrase mongerer, but a man of ideas, and capable of presenting them in a clear and concise manner.

      1918, George Franklin Wisner, The Wisners in America and Their Kindred, page 211