Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A dealer in carpets.
- n. One most at home on a carpet; a lover of ease and pleasure.
Wiktionary
- n. One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
- n. obsolete One fond of pleasure; a gallant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
- n. One fond of pleasure; a gallant.
Etymologies
- carpet + -monger (Wiktionary)
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘carpetmonger’.
-
mongery
Stephen Colbert asks "why is it that the only things you can monger are fear and fish?"
http://twitter.com/#!/StephenAt...fishmonger, fearmonger, costermonger, cheesemonger, carpetmonger, bookmonger, ballad monger, fancymonger, fashion-monger, fellmonger, fleshmonger, hatemonger and 9 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for carpetmonger.
trochee what an interesting extension -- one who sells carpets to one who enjoys leisure.
now probably obsolete. Sep 30, 2010