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I just came across ironmongery in a book I'm reading. It reminded me that I'd meant to suggest monger as a Good Word. I've always liked the words cheesemonger, fishmonger, gossipmonger, and, more recently, diseasemonger.[/b]
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Re: monger
Indeed a great word.I just came across ironmongery in a book I'm reading. It reminded me that I'd meant to suggest monger as a Good Word. I've always liked the words cheesemonger, fishmonger, gossipmonger, and, more recently, diseasemonger.[/b]
Interesting that I used to buy fish from a fishmonger, hardware from an ironmonger, cheese from a cheesemonger, but bread from a baker and vegetables from a greengrocer.
Regardless of that:
ME mongere, from OE mangere, from L mango, dealer (in slaves?), probably of Greek origin.
And further:
"from a noun derivative of Gk. manganon "contrivance, means of enchantment," from PIE base *mang- "to embellish, dress, trim." (Online Etymological Dictionary)
-- PW
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"
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I see that one can acquire fruits, "particularly apples," from a costard monger.Interesting that I used to buy fish from a fishmonger, hardware from an ironmonger, cheese from a cheesemonger, but bread from a baker and vegetables from a greengrocer.
And don't forget the perennially popular wars and rumormongers of warmongers. (How do you like them apples?)
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Indeed. Fruits and veggies were once sold by a coster. Costers* and hawkers, along with Frenchmen on bicycles selling onions, and gypsies going door-to-door selling wooden clothes pegs are all part of a more picturesque not-so-long-ago. Now replaced by Tescos.I see that one can acquire fruits, "particularly apples," from a costard monger.Interesting that I used to buy fish from a fishmonger, hardware from an ironmonger, cheese from a cheesemonger, but bread from a baker and vegetables from a greengrocer.
And don't forget the perennially popular wars and rumormongers of warmongers. (How do you like them apples?)
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-- PW
*The coster is immortalized in the Gilbert & Sullivan lyric:
"When the coster's finished jumping on his mother,
He loves to lie a-basking in the sun,
Ah, take one consideration with another,
A policeman's lot is not a happy one."
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"
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Of course. And the guy who does purchasing estimates for the veggie salesguy would be a coster coster.I suppose that a sales trainer could be termed a monger monger.
--PW
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"
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