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† ˈcorn-monger Obs.
Also 6–7 -munger.
A corn-dealer; often used with implication of greed or extortion.
c1515Cocke Lorell's B. (Percy Soc.) 10 Arowe heders, maltemen and corne mongers. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 438 They haue more store of pasture then tillage..which maketh more grasiors then Cornemungers. 1603Bp. Hall Serm. 19 Ye Cormorant Cornmongers, hatch up a dearth in the time of plenty. 1614T. Wilson Comm. Rom. (1627), The covetous usurers, cornemongers, oppressors, extortioners. 1814Scott Wav. xxxix, ‘The corn-mongers will make the auld price gude against them as has horses till keep.’ |