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mongeress en · NOUN

Etymology

From monger + -ess.

Meanings

1. (feminine, form-of) Female equivalent of monger.
   form of monger
   • Hate-mongeress DOROTHY RABI NOWITZ had this to say about the Allies in her kosher-conservative column last February 16 in the San Antonio Express-News: “[I]t took six years to defeat the Axis, every hour of which -- including the bombing of Dresden -- was their finest hour.” 1985 August, “Primate Watch”, in Instauration, volume 10, number 9, page 31:
   • “Whom God has joined together”—i.e., what the marriage-mongeress has coupled, &c. 1908, A[leksander] Brückner, “The Drama”, in H. Havelock, transl., edited by Ellis H[ovell] Minns, A Literary History of Russia, London; Leipsic: T. Fisher Unwin, page 481:
   • “Frogs,” says the lady fashion monitor, the manners-mongeress, “are not game, and therefore their legs can be eaten from the fingers, but the bones must not be put down beside the plate, but must be laid on it.” 1936, Paul King, Voyaging to China in 1855 and 1904: A Contrast in Travel, Heath Cranton Limited, pages 139–140:
   • During the 1960s thesis-mongers and mongeresses began to advance. 1988, Pierre Alechinsky, Dotremont et Cobra-forêt, Éditions Galilée, page 62:
   • The hysterical activities of the charity-mongeresses have incidentally been avoided, and their energies diverted to occupations less destructive to life. 1893 November 11, “Children of the State”, in The Medical News. A Weekly Medical Journal., volume LXIII, number 20, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea Brothers & Co., pages 551–552:
   • After his death in 1888, Njoya was still young to take over the throne, his mother therefore became regent queen. This displeased the other sons of Nsangou who observed the Queen Mother (Regent) as cruel and a power mongeress. 1979, La Province de L’Ouest, page 88:
   • I repeat that one book by this murder-mongeress / Will last you as long as the Library of Congress. / Her full name is Agatha Christie Mallowan, / On my desert isle she is second to no one. 1957, Ogden Nash, “The Trouble with Shakespeare, You Remember Him”, in You Can’t Get There From Here, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 104:
   • A salty style surged on a tide of the robust and ribald: “thinkerless unspeakables,” “Improved Order of Red Baboons,” “the embullioned and behorred spectacularians,” “a splayfooted mongeress of raucous rhyme,” “the glorified cuspidorarii.” a. 1914, Ambrose Bierce, quotee, Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Lexicographer, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1951, page 157:

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