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ˈnewsmonger
One who collects and retails news.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 25 By smiling Pick-thankes and base Newes-mongers. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 302 The Complementall visitant Athenian, Newes-monger, and Amorous Trifler. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 109 Cardan and other News-mongers from the skies. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. iv. Wks. 1751 VIII. 343 Wood prescribes to the Newsmongers in London what they are to write. 1793F. Burney Let. 22 Feb., We hear no news here,..and see no newspapers, and not an English newsmonger. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 227 She is a gentle newsmonger, and turns her scandal on the sunny side. 1884Courthope Addison v. 82 Towards the end of the sixteenth century newsmongers began to issue little pamphlets.
Hence ˈnewsmongering; also ˈnewsmongery.
1592Nashe Four Lett. Confut. H 4, That..which a scrutinie..hath concluded to be viler than newesmungrie. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. Ser. ii. iv. 61 The mechanical operations of the spirit of newsmongering. |