monger:
(plural: ‘mongers‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘g’ rhymes with the letter ‘g’ in “gun” — for the right pronunciation, please click here)
a small businessperson;
a tradesman/trades-person;
a person who does business or trade in a stated field,
e.g.
Most immigrants in a foreign land start their new lives as mongers in small products, such as cloth, hardware goods, leather products, etc.
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a person who likes to spread or encourage unpleasant news (gossip) in order to make others look cheap or bad, or just for fun or as pass-time,
usually in combination with other words: ‘gossip-monger’, ‘rumour-monger’, ‘war-monger’, etc.
The rumour that the pop-signer died was spread by some gossip-mongers.e.g.
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‘Monger’, always with a capital M, is often found in the names of people as the surname/family name. For example, John Monger, Rose Joseph Monger, Ted Monger, etc. For an article on the origin of this word as a surname/family name, please click here.
For a political critique that shows us how we come across this word in our daily browsing, please click here, and for a political news article in which we see the phrase ‘war monger’ being used, please click here.


