单词 | ballad-monger |
释义 | ballad-mongern. A maker or seller of ballads; (spec., in depreciative use) one who writes or deals in cheap or slanderous verse. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of bawdy-basket1567 ballad-monger1598 land-pirate1608 map-monger1639 bookwoman1647 mercury1648 second-hand bookseller1656 Bible-seller1707 map-seller1710 stall-man1761 book auctioneer1776 scrap-monger1786 colporteur1796 death-hunter1851 train boy1852 speech-crier1856 roarer1865 looker-out1894 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > ballad poet ballad-maker1565 ballad-monger1598 ballad writer1611 balladeer1714 balladist1811 ballad composer1821 troubadour1826 ballader1878 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 126 I had rather be a kitten and cry mew, Then one of these same miter ballet mongers. 1638 T. Nabbes Springs Glorie sig. Fv You shall not stuffe your annuall bookes with rimes Bought of the Ballad-mongers of the times. 1691 A. Wood Fasti Oxoniensis in Athenæ Oxonienses I. 761 They [sc. sonnets]..were valued among Scholars, but since they have been mostly sold on Ballad-mongers stalls. 1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. vii. 7 Villon was merely a pert and insipid ballad-monger. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. xi. 185 The miserable fame to have my story bawled forth by hawkers and ballad mongers. 1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers 8 Behold the Ballad-monger Southey rise! 1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld II. xviii. 252 All the ballad-mongers and broadsheet vendors of the town. 1923 Mod. Philol. 21 17 The minstrel and the ballad-monger have not been the only singers to destroy the magic by their clumsiness. 1994 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 6th Ser. 4 76 The broadside ballads which the ballad-monger sang in the market place. Derivatives ˈballad-ˌmongering adj. and n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > ballad > composing of ballads ballad-making?1507 ballading1593 ballad-mongering1614 balladeering1939 1614 J. Taylor Nipping of Abuses sig. B4v I hate such belladmongring riming slaues, Such iygging rascals, such audacious knaues. 1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers (MS.) Argt. The poet..revileth Walter Scott for..ballad-mongering. 1997 Times (Nexis) 27 Nov. Ballad-mongering is not the whole of this man's achievement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1598 |
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