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单词 ballad-monger
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ballad-mongern.

Brit. /ˈbalədˌmʌŋɡə/, U.S. /ˈbælədˌmɑŋɡər/, /ˈbælədˌməŋɡər/
Forms: see ballad n. and monger n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ballad n., monger n.1
Etymology: < ballad n. + monger n.1
A maker or seller of ballads; (spec., in depreciative use) one who writes or deals in cheap or slanderous verse.
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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.
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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).
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