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| -monger |
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Derived Terms: (top2)
- cheesemonger
- costermonger
- fashionmonger
- fishmonger
- gossipmonger
- hatemonger
- ironmonger
- monger
(mid2)
- newsmonger
- rumormonger
- scandalmonger
- scaremonger
- warmonger
- whoremonger
- wordmonger
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| cockmonger |
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noun
- (slang) (pejorative) One who deals his penis for return of a particular sex act.
- (slang) (pejorative) The hoarding or refusal to share cock; whether it be their own or others.
- (slang) (pejorative) A stingy person; someone who refuses to share with others.
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| costermonger |
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noun - (British) a trader who sells fruit and vegetables from a barrow in the street
Etymology: from costard + monger
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| fishmonger |
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noun
- A shop that sells fish
- A person who sells fish
- Archaic, a pimp.
- "Excellent well; you are a fishmonger." - William Shakespeare, said by Hamlet to Polonius. (Act 2, Scene 2)
Etymology: fish + -monger
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| ironmonger |
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noun
- (context, mostly, UK) a retailer in iron goods and hardware
Etymology: iron + monger
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noun - A dealer in a specific commodity, normally used in combination
- costermonger
- A person promoting something undesirable, always used in combination
- warmonger
verb - (transitive) To sell or peddle something
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| profit monger |
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- A person, business or profession marked by avarice and greed
- Lawyers are considered to be profit mongers when the law is treated as a trade secret and the public process as a business owned and operated by the legal profession.
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| rumor-monger |
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noun - (alternative spelling of, rumormonger)
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| rumor monger |
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noun - (alternative spelling of, rumormonger)
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| rumormonger |
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noun - A person who spreads rumors and gossip.
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| scandalmonger |
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noun - A person who trades in gossip. A person who collects and diseminates rumors.
- The reporter for the tabloid called himslef a journalist but was really nothing more than a .
Etymology: scandal + -monger
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| scaremonger |
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- someone who spreads unpleasant rumours, or needlessly alarms people
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| warmonger |
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- (pejorative) someone who advocates war; a militarist
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| whoremonger |
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noun - A frequent customer of whores.
- A procurer of whores; a pimp.
Etymology: whore + monger
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