monger[noun]Synonyms: peddler, arab, duffer, hawker, higgler, huckster, mongerer, outcrier, packman, vendor
[verb]Synonyms: peddle, hawk, huckster, vend
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
-monger /mʌŋɡə $ mɑːŋɡər, mʌŋ-/
suffix [in nouns][
Language: Old English;
Origin: mangere]
1. someone who sells a particular thing:
a fishmonger2. rumour-monger/gloom-monger/doom-monger etc someone who says unpleasant things:
The rumour-mongers have been busy again. the economic gloom-mongers ⇒
warmonger [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲