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ˈcheesemonger
[see monger.]
a. One who sells or deals in cheese.
c1510Cocke Lorelles B. 9 Fruyters, chese mongers, and mynstrelles. 1662Act 14 Chas. II, c. 26 §3 No Cheese monger..shall repack for sale any Butter in any Kinderkin, Firkin, etc. 1760Goldsm. Cit. W. CX. They make cheesemongers and pastrycooks knights. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 318/2 The business of a grocer and cheesemonger.
b. (See quot. 1874.) Cf. cheese n.1 1 d.
1874Hotten Slang Dict., Cheesemongers, once a popular name for the First Lifeguards. 1893Eng. Illustr. Mag. 125/1 ‘Come on, you Cheesemongers!’ the bantering cry of a commanding officer of a cavalry regiment of the Household Brigade at Waterloo.
Hence ˈcheesemongering vbl. n. and ppl. a. (fig. in quot.), ˈcheesemongerly a. (often contemptuous); ˈcheesemongery, the commodities sold by a cheesemonger.
1839Dickens Sk. Boz, Tuggs's at Ramsgate, Mr. Tuggs attended to the grocery department; Mrs. Tuggs to the cheesemongery. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 21 This hind-counter, cheesemongerly, Newmarket, cock-fighting figment. 1859Sat. Rev. VII. 489/2 A cheesemongering estimate of Parliamentary qualifications. 1883Daily News 18 Sept. 1/5 Contracts for Butcher's Meat, Cheesemongery, and Flour. |