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Meaning of mongeress | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B2

Definitions

Female equivalent of monger.

feminine, form-of

Examples

“The hysterical activities of the charity-mongeresses have incidentally been avoided, and their energies diverted to occupations less destructive to life.”
““Whom God has joined together”—i.e., what the marriage-mongeress has coupled, &c.”
“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.””
““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.””
“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.”
“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.”
“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.””
“During the 1960s thesis-mongers and mongeresses began to advance.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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