Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who deals in flesh as food.
- noun A procurer; a pimp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic One who deals in
flesh ; hence, apimp ,procurer , orpander .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'll say this for Wes, he is a grimly determined and wildly entertaining fleshmonger.
Now THAT'S Pimpin'! 2008
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I'll say this for Wes, he is a grimly determined and wildly entertaining fleshmonger.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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His wife is not his: his children are not his; they can be taken from him, and sold at any minute, as far away from each other as the human fleshmonger may see fit to carry them.
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V. i.336 (134,7) [And was the duke a fleshmonger, a fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be?]
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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And was the duke a fleshmonger, a fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be?
Measure for Measure 1604
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"At Slabtown, a nondescript spot a mile above Cannon's, the light-marching band crossed in a row-boat; they piled brush and bent down saplings in the traveller's road, where he should almost reach the brow of the hill in his buggy, and when the fleshmonger halted at the obstacle, _chis, hola!
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
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This was the finishing blow to Liston's offended dignity -- to be invited to dinner by a fat fleshmonger, merely to amuse his uncultivated cubs, was too much for the nervous system of the comedian to bear; but how to retreat? "
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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