What the nut is a monger? I got to thinking about the word recently. Now, Cachinnatees, I'm not trying to brag when I say that I have a pretty expansive vocabulary. In fact, my vocabulary includes a few words that end in monger. But these words didn't seem to give me a unified picture of what this fun little word could mean.
For example, there is the word hatemonger, as in, "My friend Forky is a hatemonger."
Then there's the word fishmonger, as in "Mr. Snow from Carousel is a fishmonger.
Of course, without offering any examples, there's the word warmonger - this is not a political blog.
And finally, there's whoremonger. Okay, that one's not really a word. My friend Dan and I made it up in about the sixth grade. If I remember correctly, and my memory is fuzzy, it sprung from misunderstanding the word warmonger and a run-in with some prostitutes just outside of Tel Aviv. (It's another story for another time. I promise.)
But examining those words doesn't give you a good picture of what monger means. So I had to look it up. Turns out it does have at least three different definitions. And now we all know.
It really is a great word. Just say it. Say it out loud. Mooooooonnnngerrrrrrrrr. It feels good to say. So does anyone know any other uses for the word monger? Anyone have further examples of how Forky is a hatemonger? Care to coin another monger word?
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I'll be out of town at a conference for most of this week, blogmongers, so forgive my lack of posting until later on. Have a good week!
Posted on 9/12/2006
We have a cheesemonger and a fishmonger right in town, and that is what they are called.
Posted on 9/12/2006
Cach you're in marketing, right? Doesn't that make you a monger? And if the conference is for marketing, then might it not be lead by a mongermonger?
Mmmmmmmmm . . . . cheeeeeeeeese.
Posted on 9/12/2006
Cheesemonger just made my top ten list of favorite words.
And, yes, I am in marketing among other things. And yes, at the conference I will be attending a seminar that addresses marketing. Can there be a mongermonger though? The universe won't implode or anything if we admit that?
Posted on 9/12/2006
That is so funny you all said "CheeseMonger" - that's what I call my son because he loves cheese so much. I'm a SteakMonger. My daughter is a Soynut-ButterMonger. I guess HubbaHoney is a SalsaMonger.
Posted on 9/12/2006
mon‧ger‧mon‧ger [muhng-ger-muhng-ger, mong-]
- noun
1. a person who offers goods or services to persons who also offer goods or services;
2. a person who (usually through an infomercial) sells get-rich-quick tools or products to be sold by people who make the originator rich, quickly;
3. usually a pejorative describing any salesperson who could see toxic waste to other less competent salespersons.
[Origin: Coined by Euphrony in reply to a general comment about mongers by The Cachinnator, on September 12, 2006. All rights reserved.]
Posted on 9/12/2006
...and so if euphrony is trying to sell us on the idea of a word for a person who sells the idea of selling to other people who sell to other people, then does that make him a mongermongermonger? Am I now a mongermongermongermonger?
You ever go to a barber shop as a kid, and they had mirrors mounted on both the front and the back walls, and you got that feeling that while sitting in the chair you were able to see eternity?
Posted on 9/12/2006
In regard to Steve's comment:
monger
+
mirror
=
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Posted on 9/12/2006
Really, I've prefer to be a cheesemonger; but, I'd eat it before I sold it so I'd go out of business rather quickly.
If not a cheesemonger, then a cheesewhizmonger. Or just a whizmonger
Posted on 9/12/2006
And, to the best of my knowledge, the only mongermongers (or mongermongermongermongers) either either descended from Swiss bankers or have multiple infomercials. I'm more Irish/German and not on T.V., so . . . I don't fit the bill.
Posted on 9/12/2006
There's a monger among us.
There are many mongers among us.
Oh my.
Posted on 9/13/2006
There once lived a monger in Waco
Who blogged about all he could take, so
He brought up a word
that was so absurd
It’s sound made his readers go loco.
Posted on 9/13/2006
I like cookiemonger...if he lived on sesame street he would have good business from cookiemonster
cookiemonger + cookiemonster = a great sitcom
almost as funny as the one i proposed at one time...
Joey + Kramer = "The Oddest Couple"
Posted on 9/13/2006
Besides using "monger" we also like to use "nater" such as cashin-nator (but is it "er" or "or"?). :)
My husband signed up on blogger today to post a comment on my son's blog - he's calling himself "crunch-a-nator".
How about:
monger + nator = MongerNator!
Posted on 9/13/2006
I am a tapioca pudding monger.
Posted on 9/13/2006
You guys are all brilliant! (And slightly disturbed.) I'm at the conference now, but I wanted to say keep it going!
And Euphrony... don't get ahead of me... I'm planning a naughty limmerick post for next week! That's just awesome.
Posted on 9/13/2006
I just happened to think: if my 3-year old daughter used such terms, she would call me a ticklemonger. Maybe I'll teach her.
Posted on 9/14/2006
The mere fact that none of your little cachimongers have failed to produce ONE example of my hatemongering speaks volumes, I think.
I heart the Japs!
Posted on 9/17/2006
Forky, you're a bad bad man.
Magic Word: zoeomoli - an Italian pasta dish. And no, Forky, it's not only eaten by mobsters, you stereotyping hatemonger.
Posted on 9/17/2006
Sorry, but you did not make up "whoremonger." It's in the dictionary. It's also in Shakespeare.
Posted on 9/20/2006