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cheesemongery en · NOUN

Etymology

From cheesemonger + -y.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Cheese and/or butter sold by a cheesemonger.
   • Supply of meat, cheesemongery, flour, grocery, poultry, drugs, disinfectants, clothing, etc. 1916, The Municipal Journal - Volume 25, page 914:
   • She had never been into these crowded streets alone before, and, dazzled by the glittering shop-windows, and confused by the headlong throng and seemingly interminable confusion of their traffic, got herself into continual scrapes by running against the different people she met, receiving such sarcastic admonitions in return as, 'That's your way, my darling,' accompanied by a smart shove from a young gentleman, with a round wooden tray of fresh butter and other cheesemongeries on his head, which she had nearly overturned in the concussion; 1857, Leitch Ritchie, The New Shilling, page 142:
   • I observe spices, sugar, all sorts of groceries, all sorts of cheesemongery, all sorts of tinned provisions 1888, William Clark Russell, A Voyage to the Cape, page 66:
2. (countable, uncountable) The building where a cheesemonger sells dairy goods.
   • Here are two tripe-shops, a few considerable cheesemongeries, and one medicinal herb-shop. 1815, The Epicure's Almanack; Or Calendar of Good Living::
   • William Small's cheesemongery can be seen in the valley below. 2011, Andrew Pickering, Nicola Foster, Cheddar Through Time, →ISBN:
   • We stretched the cord across pine forests [ocotales] up to the old cheesemongery of Tranquilino, at a distance of 30 cords, where we erected a stone marker. 1994, E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood, International Law Reports - Volume 97, →ISBN, page 451:
3. (countable, uncountable) The work of a cheesemonger; the selling of cheese.
   • Mr. Tuggs attended to the grocery department; Mrs. Tuggs to the cheesemongery; and Miss Tuggs to her education. 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, page 159:
   • I was doing tolerably well in the cheesemongery line, and was paying my way, which is something in these hard times. 1861 July 20, Venditus, “How I Inversted my Legacy in the Purchase of Leasehold Property, and what came of it.”, in Once a Week: An Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science & .Popular Information, volume V, page 99:
   • WANTED an Apprentice in the Grocery and Cheesemongery business, a Youth of 16 years of age of good disposition, active, and wishing to oblige, and willing to attend the regulation of a Dissenting family, on week and sabbath days; 1821, The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, page 132:

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