Definitions
Etymologies
- flesh + -monger (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I'll say this for Wes, he is a grimly determined and wildly entertaining fleshmonger.”
“His wife is not his: his children are not his; they can be taken from him, and sold at any minute, as far away from each other as the human fleshmonger may see fit to carry them.”
“V. i.336 (134,7) [And was the duke a fleshmonger, a fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be?]”
“And was the duke a fleshmonger, a fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be?”
“At Slabtown, a nondescript spot a mile above Cannon's, the light-marching band crossed in a row-boat; they piled brush and bent down saplings in the traveller's road, where he should almost reach the brow of the hill in his buggy, and when the fleshmonger halted at the obstacle, _chis, hola!”
“This was the finishing blow to Liston's offended dignity -- to be invited to dinner by a fat fleshmonger, merely to amuse his uncultivated cubs, was too much for the nervous system of the comedian to bear; but how to retreat? ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fleshmonger’.
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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Finnegan
...from swerve of shore to bend of bay,...all's fair in vannesy...and in Finnegans Wake.
Other terms used or coined by Joyce may be found at inkhorn's list Joycean Vocab.riverrun, wielderfight, vannesy, arclight, ringsome, tumptytumtoes, sinduced, neatlight, baubletop, troublant, nabir, wabsanti and 765 more...
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Negative
caitiff, valetudinarian, fell, whiffler, attercop, Shaitan, Jezebel, desultory, panjandrum, limmer, cockalorum, laodicean and 91 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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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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