Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dealer in a specific commodity. Often used in combination.
- noun A person promoting something undesirable or discreditable. Often used in combination.
- transitive verb To peddle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To traffic in; deal in; make merchandise of: chiefly used in composition with its object, and often implying a petty and discreditable traffic.
- noun A trader; a dealer: now used only or chiefly in composition: as, fishmonger, ironmonger. It is often used allusively, implying a petty or discreditable traffic or activity, as in scandal-monger, mutton-monger, whoremonger.
- noun A small kind of trading-vessel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition.
- noun obsolete A small merchant vessel.
- transitive verb To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK A
dealer in aspecific commodity , normally used incombination - noun A person
promoting somethingundesirable , always used in combination - verb transitive, UK To
sell orpeddle something
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb sell or offer for sale from place to place
- noun someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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McChrystal is just another war monger from the Bush administration.
Request for more troops in Afghanistan likely, source says 2009
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This piece of dreck fear monger is only saying this to scare uninformed jews into voting for her and her political cronies.
Palin warns of 'Second Holocaust' if Iran gains nuclear weapons 2010
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Obama's use of the word fear monger is identical to Bush's use of the word Unpatriotic.
McCain: 'It's very clear who Hamas wants' in the White House 2008
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A Fear monger is now anybody who challenges Obama's ability to govern.
McCain: 'It's very clear who Hamas wants' in the White House 2008
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April 30th, 2008 7: 32 pm ET americans are seeing obama for what he is, a typical politician, who lies. for a harvard grad to say he had no idea for 20 years, that rev. wright was a hate monger, is an insult to americans. the liberal media can spin this any way they want, but small town america isn't buying the spin, the polls are reflective of that.
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What a phoney war monger is a better description than the over blown title of war hero.
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Anderson Cooper, the rumor monger, is like listening to a five-year-old tell a tale of who got hit by a UFO while crossing the street.
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I don’t give a rat’s ass what some Republican ball monger is hoping and praying for … ….
Think Progress » Will Scott Brown Stick By Birther Candidate Who Compared Obama To Osama Bin Laden? 2010
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Puh-lease every single one of us knows that Obama is not a war monger, which is precisely what Duhbya, Cheney, and the rest of BushCo are.
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The thing is, I don't think Lynne is likely to be representative of the entire "monger" community.
Archive 2006-02-01 Garry 2006
sonofgroucho commented on the word monger
Spotted a cheese monger's shop in Glasgow the other day!
August 18, 2007