different between fruitmonger vs monger

English

Etymology

fruit +? monger

Noun

fruitmonger (plural fruitmongers)

1. One who sells fruit.
   • 1995, Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass, Yearling (2001), ?ISBN, pages 39-40:

     So he wanders through the market, between the old-clothes stalls and the fortune-paper stalls, the fruitmongers and the fried-fish seller, with his little dæmon on his shoulder, […]

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, The Penguin Press (1997), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Dixon has brought a small apple from a fruitmonger's barrow, […]

   • 2012, Karen Cushman, Will Sparrow's Road, Clarion Books (2012), ?ISBN, pages 133-134:

     Will and the Duchess sat in the sunshine and shared an apple Will had nicked from a fruitmonger's stall.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fruitmonger.

Synonyms

• fruiterer, fruitseller, coster, costermonger

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English mongere, mangere, from Old English mangere (“merchant, trader, dealer”), from Proto-West Germanic *mang?r?, from Latin mang? (“dealer, trader”), perhaps from Ancient Greek ???????? (mánganon, “contrivance, means of enchantment”), from Proto-Indo-European *mang- (“to embellish, dress, trim”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??.??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m??.???/, /?m??.???/
• Rhymes: -????(?)

Noun

monger (plural mongers)

1. (chiefly in combination) A dealer in a specific commodity.

   costermonger, fishmonger, ironmonger

   • 2005, Los Angeles Magazine (volume 50, number 11, page 111)

     For the freshest wild catch, ask your monger when the fish are running.

2. (in combination) A person promoting something undesirable.

   warmonger, sleazemonger, scaremonger

3. A small sea vessel.
   • 1790, Wilson Lt. Robert (RN), The Seaman's Manual

     monger: a small sea-vessel used by fishermen.

4. Clipping of whoremonger.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

monger (third-person singular simple present mongers, present participle mongering, simple past and past participle mongered)

1. (transitive, Britain) To sell or peddle something
2. (transitive) To promote something undesirable.

Translations

Anagrams

• morgen