monger
Plural: mongers
Noun
- someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
- Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word.
- A dealer or trader in a specific commodity.
- Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word.
- A person promoting something, especially an undesirable thing.
- Clipping of whoremonger (“a frequent customer of whores”).
- A small seagoing vessel used for fishing.
Verb
Verb Forms: mongered, mongering, mongers
- To deal in or peddle something, often disreputably.
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- To deal in, peddle, or sell (something).
- To promote (something, especially an undesirable thing); to peddle.
Examples
- He would MONGER for every single point, scrutinizing the board for any possible word in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
The 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:
* From Ancient Greek μαγγανεύω (manganeúō, “to use charms or philtres; to cheat, play tricks; to dress food artificially to make it appear better”), from μάγγᾰνον (mángănon, “means of bewitching, charm, philtre”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mang-, *meng- (“to dress, embellish, trim”); or from Arabic ن ج ل (n j l, root relating to pouring out or thrusting)) + -εύω (-eúō, suffix forming denominative verbs of activity or condition).
* From Latin *manicō, *manigō (“deal, trade; to handle, manage (?)”), from manus (“hand”); further etymology uncertain, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”), or *mon-u-.
The verb is either derived from the noun, or is a back-formation from mongering (adjective or noun).
Synonyms
bargainer, dealer, hawk, huckster, peddle, pitch, trader, vend, Jane, all-nighter, curb crawler, fare, gonk, jane, jockey, john, kerb crawler, mong, monger, muttonmonger, punter, score, short-timer, steamer, trick, wapping cove, whoremaster, whoremonger
Scrabble Score: 9
monger: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmonger: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
monger: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary