mongeress

plural mongeresses · alternative mongress

1. feminineFemale equivalent of monger.

   “Whom God has joined together”—i.e., what the marriage-mongeress has coupled, &c.

   1908, A[leksander] Brückner, “The Drama”, in H. Havelock, transl., edited by Ellis H[ovell] Minns, A Literary History of Russia, London; Leipsic: T. Fisher Unwin, page 481

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   The hysterical activities of the charity-mongeresses have incidentally been avoided, and their energies diverted to occupations less destructive to life.

   1893 November 11, “Children of the State”, in The Medical News. A Weekly Medical Journal., volume LXIII, number 20, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea Brothers & Co., pages 551–552

   A salty style surged on a tide of the robust and ribald: “thinkerless unspeakables,” “Improved Order of Red Baboons,” “the embullioned and behorred spectacularians,” “a splayfooted mongeress of raucous rhyme,” “the glorified cuspidorarii.”

   a. 1914, Ambrose Bierce, quotee, Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Lexicographer, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1951, page 157

   “Frogs,” says the lady fashion monitor, the manners-mongeress, “are not game, and therefore their legs can be eaten from the fingers, but the bones must not be put down beside the plate, but must be laid on it.”

   1936, Paul King, Voyaging to China in 1855 and 1904: A Contrast in Travel, Heath Cranton Limited, pages 139–140

   I repeat that one book by this murder-mongeress / Will last you as long as the Library of Congress. / Her full name is Agatha Christie Mallowan, / On my desert isle she is second to no one.

   1957, Ogden Nash, “The Trouble with Shakespeare, You Remember Him”, in You Can’t Get There From Here, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 104

   After his death in 1888, Njoya was still young to take over the throne, his mother therefore became regent queen. This displeased the other sons of Nsangou who observed the Queen Mother (Regent) as cruel and a power mongeress.

   1979, La Province de L’Ouest, page 88