Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
seller orcomposer ofballads .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word balladmonger.
Examples
-
This particular David Jones is the famous balladmonger from Llanybydder, Carms,
-
Earl was his son, also Henry, who fought at Chevy Chase; he was not, however, slain there, as the balladmonger says, but at St. Albans.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
-
Jean Francois was a vagabond by nature, a balladmonger by profession.
Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches Maurice Baring 1909
-
a room which was papered with photographs, chiefly of the nude and the semi-nude, intermingled with sheafs of playbills that hung from the walls like ballads, from the board of the balladmonger.
The Christian A Story Hall Caine 1892
-
"It is not to be denied that Hafen shines as a fiddler, however questionable may be his merits as a balladmonger.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. 1832
qms commented on the word balladmonger
Whether Brassens or Dylan or Brel
They draw from the same woeful well
For each balladmonger
Affects pallid longueur.
What unhappy tales they do tell.
July 16, 2016