Meaning of mongery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The process of selling something of a specific type; the business of a monger.
   countable, uncountable
2. The process of promoting or spreading something undesirable.
   countable, uncountable
3. That which is sold by a monger.
   countable, uncountable
4. The building where a monger conducts business.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“To this the plaintiff replied that that was true, but that the term of which he was possessed was created four years before the defendant was possessed of his workshops and before he carried on his iron-mongery work there.”

“NOTICE is hereby given that the business of butchery and fish-mongery carried out at Government Lane, Nairobi, on premises LR No 209/560, by Sadrudm Jamal Jiwa Mussa and Amina Sadrudin Jama Jiwa Mussa, both of Nairobi in the Republic of Kenya, under the name or style of Family Butcher and Fish Monger, has, as from the 20th day of June, 1973, been sold and transferred to Evangeline Celeste Muh and Benjamin Jacob Mwakio, Nairobi, who will carry on the said business at the same place and under the same name and style of Family Butcher.”

“However, while there may be some truth in this opinion, it is an undeniable fact that prostitution poses a great threat to family peace and that the cases of marital dissolution multiply due to prostitute mongery.”

“Alehouses were more frequented, drunkenness more general, tale-mongery and sedition, the vices of sedentary idleness, prevailed, while a fanatical gloom was spreading over the country.”

“For you have the whole Borough, with all its love-makings and scandal-mongeries, contentions and contentments, as in miniature, and could cover it all with your hat.”

“The licentiousness of paganism outside of the immorality of the flesh was profit mongery and its twin Sister, interest, or as it was then called, usury and slavery.”

“In [Demers88, Demers89) three epidemic communication methods are specified: direct mail, rumor mongery, and anti-entropy.”

“Such “image-mongery” only leads to “a lack of clarity about the role of imaginability” and about “the extent to which it insures that a sentence makes sense.””

“A building contract provided that all iron mongery was to be furnished by the owner.”

“The most important articles of Austrian trade are at present as follows: wood and wooden articles, iron, and iron mongery, paper and paper goods, (stationery), machinery, apparatus, textile fabrics, clothes, grain, leguminous plants, flour, vegetables, fats, fuel, chemical products, mechanical instruments, watches, leather and fancy goods and the so-called "Vienese articles" —ready-made clothes, furniture, cars and carriages, leather goods, articles for smokers, works of art, articles produced by the arts and crafts and cigarette paper.”

“Hardware store gottem from the mongery dealer.”

“The other line was anchored by “heart and club German steel, Stidman's cross-cut saws, duck, goose and buck shot and an assortment of iron mongery.””

“For, within the city lines a crawling, sticky stream, nor picturesque nor sweet to sight or smell, it yet hath smothered passions of its own, and for no graver provocation than an April shower will burst its feeble bounds, and, like Leigh Hunt's pig in Smithfield market, "rush up all manner of streets," and over bridges, and down cellars, and through an unclassified abomination of mongeries, distributing mud, dead cats and promiscuous stenches with happy, lavish malice.”

“Although there are 75 seats and a kind of underwater flotsam decor in which fancy cocktails are served, the humble beauty of the mongery remains in the freshest fish served above sea level.”

“At the door of the mongery he kissed his wife farewell: “It would not be proper for you to deal with the sheriff. I believe he'll come. You watch for the blue flag, too.””

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