单词 | cheesemonger |
释义 | cheesemongern. 1. A person who sells or deals in cheese.Attested earliest in surnames. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > sellers of other provisions cheesemonger1185 pudding-wife1287 eirmongerc1305 honeyman1510 egg-wife1659 corn-chandler1687 pickle man1714 tea man1736 pickle dealer1791 iceman1807 ice-creamer1851 plum duffer1851 barm-man1913 traiteur1963 1185–6 in Discovery (1921) 2 3 (MED) Baldwin le chesemangere. 1437 Close Roll, 15 Henry VI (P.R.O.: C 54/287) m. 14v Alexander Reve Ciuis & Chesemonger. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vv Fruyters, chese mongers, and mynstrelles. 1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies 127 One ask'd a Cheesmonger what was the reason that butter and Cheese were so deere. 1607 T. Middleton Phoenix sig. C3 Why Pistor a Baker sold his wife tother day to a cheese-monger. 1662 Act 14 Charles II c. 26 §3 in Statutes of Realm (1963) V. 421 No Cheese monger..shall repack for sale any Butter in any Kinderkin Firkin or other Cask or Pott. 1733 Capt. Downes All Vows Kept iii. v. 41 You Beast you; you stink like a Cheesemonger. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 181 They make cheesemongers and pastrycooks Knights. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxviii. 284 Mr. Winkle..is nearly precipitated into the street, as the coach twists round the sharp corner by the cheese-monger's shop. 1885 Law Times 79 318/2 The business of a grocer and cheesemonger. 1925 Cheltenham Chron. 12 Dec. 8/3 Young and Gilling..was flourishing, in spite of the apparent opposition of a gentleman, who doubled the occupations of house-agent and cheese-monger on the same premises. 1985 Times (Nexis) 12 Oct. More important is to know a cheesemonger who knows his cheese. 2014 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 22 Oct. Some cheesemongers will give you leftover rinds for free. 2. In plural. The (First) Life Guards (see lifeguard n. 1). Cf. cheese n.1 6. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > British Ulsters1649 Scots Guardsa1675 fusilier1680 guards1682 Scots Dragoons1689 Scots Fusiliers1689 Inniskilling1715 Scots Greys1728 blue1737 Black Watch1739 Oxford blues1766 green linnets1793 Grenadiers1800 slashers1802 the Buffs1806 tartan1817 Gay Gordons1823 cheesemongers1824 Green Jacket1824 The Bays1837 RHA1837 dirty half-hundred1841 die-hard1844 lifeguard1849 cherry-picker1865 lancer-regiment1868 cheeses1877 Territorial Regiment1877 the Sweeps1879 dirty shirts1887 Scottish Rifles1888 shiner1891 Yorkshire1898 imperials1899 Irish guards1902 Hampshires1904 BEF1914 Old Contemptibles1915 contemptibles1917 Tank Corps1917 the Tins1918 skins1928 pioneer corps1939 red devils1943 Blues and Royals1968 U.D.R.1969 1824 European Mag. & London Rev. July 305/2 His majesty's life-guards, (satirically called the cheese-mongers, real weighty and most responsible citizens), boldly bumped along by his side. 1827 Guards I. 15 You are talking of a dark age..when the Life Guards were called the Cheesemongers; all gingerbread and gold leaf; shopkeepers and freeholders. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 115 Cheesemongers, once a popular name for the First Lifeguards. 1893 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 10 125/1 ‘Come on, you Cheesemongers!’ the bantering cry of a commanding officer of a cavalry regiment of the Household Brigade at Waterloo. 2010 R. Burnham & R. Mcguigan Brit. Army against Napoleon iii. 121 (table) Nicknames of the cavalry regiments... The Life Guards. The Cheeses or Cheesemongers. DerivativesΚΠ a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 21 This hind-counter, cheesemongerly, Newmarket, cock-fighting figment. ˈcheesemongery n. the products sold by a cheesemonger; (also) the business of selling cheese. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > goods sold by other specific traders cutlery1624 saltery ware1628 millinery1676 ironmongery1711 hardware1723 cheesemongery1760 confectionery1769 hosiery1790 hattery1824 drysaltery1847 shoemercery1862 drapery1897 1760 Public Ledger 29 Feb. A House and Shop in the Cheesemongery Business. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1839) 359 Mr. Tuggs attended to the grocery department, Mrs. Tuggs to the cheesemongery. 1922 Times 30 Aug. 17/3 Tenders are invited for the supply of Bread, Cheesemongery, Fish, Fowls, Grocery, Meat, Milk, and Potatoes to St. Thomas's Hospital. 2003 Financial Times 20 Sept. 10 He was taken on..to help run the Cheese Shop in Chester and learn cheesemongery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1185 |
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