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mon⋅ger

  [muhng-ger, mong-]
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–noun
1. a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usually used in combination): a gossipmonger.
2. Chiefly British. a dealer in or trader of a commodity (usually used in combination): fishmonger.
–verb (used with object)
3. to sell; hawk.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME (n.); OE mangere, equiv. to mang(ian) to trade, act as a monger (≪ L mangō salesman) + -ere -er 1 ; c. ON, OHG mangari

Related forms:
mon⋅ger⋅ing, noun, adjective
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mon·ger   (mŭng'gər, mŏng'-)   
n.  
  1. A dealer in a specific commodity. Often used in combination: an ironmonger.
  2. A person promoting something undesirable or discreditable. Often used in combination: a scandalmonger; a warmonger.
tr.v.   mon·gered, mon·ger·ing, mon·gers
To peddle.

[Middle English mongere, from Old English mangere, from Latin mangō, dealer in slaves, probably of Greek origin.]
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Monger

Mon"ger\, n. [AS. mangere, fr. mangian to trade; akin to Icel. manga to trade, mangari a trader, OHG. mangari, mengari; cf. L. mango a dealer in slaves.]

1. A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.

2. A small merchant vessel. [Obs.] --Blount.

Monger

Mon"ger\, v. t. To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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monger 
O.E. mangere, from P.Gmc. mangojan (cf. O.S. mangon, O.N. manga), from L. mango (gen. mangonis) "dealer, trader," from a noun derivative of Gk. manganon "contrivance, means of enchantment," from PIE base *mang- "to embellish, dress, trim." Used in comb. form in Eng. since at least 12c.; since 16c. chiefly with overtones of petty and disreputable. The modern verb is first recorded 1928, from the noun (but there was a verb form in O.E.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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