Definitions
Etymologies
- From cheese + -monger (Wiktionary)
Examples
“After all, to complain that McEwan, Barnes & Co aren't living up to the legacy of British modernism is a little like complaining that the cheesemonger has run out of chalk.”
The Guardian: What Ever Happened to Modernism? by Gabriel Josipovici
“It took us ages to pick our way through the crowded streets down to the Strand, and along the way I spoke to strangers, something Rose wishes I would not do, sang a May Day song with Mr. Lake, the cheesemonger, and ate sugared almond comfits until I felt ill.”
“The cheesemonger was bringing up an armful of waxy wrapped cheeses from his cold storage below, and the flower seller was winding together bushy bundles of creamy pink roses.”
“Saxelby a Day A-Whey beloved local cheesemonger leads foodie day trips to NY dairy farms”
The Huffington Post: Jeralyn Gerba: The Best Way To Go Solo In NYC
“He had been a cheesemonger, but failure in business and poverty had driven him into the workhouse, whither his wife had refused to accompany him.”
“Learning about the cheesemakers and their production process is an important step to being a good cheesemonger.”
“Begin the new year with some of the best pantry staples that chefs and a cheesemonger/co-owner of a highly respected specialty food market recommended to us over the past year.”
The Huffington Post: Find. Eat. Drink.: Chefs Recommend Pantry Staples For The New Year
“Unlike Gordon Edgar, Liz Thorpe did know early on that she loved cheese, although she passed up an opportunity, straight out of college, to work an entry-level job for famed New York cheesemonger Steve Jenkins.”
“We asked a group of chefs, a cheesemonger, a baker, and a bartender to reveal some of the tools of the trade they love to use.”
The Huffington Post: Find. Eat. Drink.: 10 Culinary Professionals's Favorite Tools & Tricks
“Which is why the cheesemonger occupies such a pivotal role in the culinary pantheon.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cheesemonger’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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cheese
everything cheese,expressions like
stiff cheddar,turophile's heaven
a work in progresscheddar, cheddared, cheddaring, cheedam, cheese straw, cheesed off, cheesed, cheesie, cheeseparing, cheese tree, cheesewood, cheesier and 352 more...
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yoshiyahu's Words
meme, disingenuous, antebellum, hypnagogic, philtrum, transference, prototypical, janissary, tuareg, shoal, caltrop, bannister and 89 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Trades Featured in R. Campbell's The ...
Hey kids! What do YOU want to be when you grow up?!
Reprint edition, Devon: Latimer Trend & Co., Ltd., 1969. Full original citation (you'd better grab a drink and sit down) is:
...woollen draper, wood monger, wood cutter, wine cooper, woolsted man, wool card maker, wool comber, wool stapler, wire drawer, whalebone-man, whip maker, weaver and 343 more...
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Words that remind me of Monty Python
shrubbery, cheese, lumberjack, silly, confusion, ministry, spam, fish, python, monty, knight, the comfy chair and 15 more...
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Monger monger
wordmonger, cheesemonger, hatemonger, warmonger, whoremonger, scaremonger, peacemonger, lovemonger, phrasemonger, bookmonger, peltmonger, wondermonger and 12 more...
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The Miller's Tale
cheesemonger, fishmonger, mercer, milliner, cobbler, sailor, cooper, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, jewler and 34 more...
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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...
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Mongers
fishmonger, cheesemonger, warmonger, fearmonger, hatemonger, ironmonger
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cheesemonger.
mollusque Gravener was profound enough to remark after a moment that in the first place he couldn't be anything but a Dissenter, and when I answered that the very note of his fascination was his extraordinary speculative breadth, my friend retorted that there was no cad like your cultivated cad and that I might depend upon discovering (since I had had the levity not already to have inquired) that my shining light proceeded, a generation back, from a Methodist cheesemonger.
--Henry James, 1894, The Coxon Fund Nov 19, 2009
sonofgroucho There is a cheesemonger in Great Western Road in Glasgow. Oct 6, 2007