| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| monger |
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| SYLLABICATION: | mon·ger |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m ng g r, m ng- |
| NOUN: | 1. A dealer in a specific commodity. Often used in combination: an ironmonger. 2. A person promoting something undesirable or discreditable. Often used in combination: a scandalmonger; a warmonger. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: mon·gered, mon·ger·ing, mon·gers
To peddle. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English mongere, from Old English mangere, from Latin mang , dealer in slaves, probably of Greek origin.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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