English Dictionary

mongery

noun

The process of selling something of a specific type; the business of a monger. / The process of promoting or spreading something undesirable. / That which is sold by a monger.

I visited the local mongery to buy some cheese.

意味（1）

The process of selling something of a specific type; the business of a monger.

To this the plaintiff replied that that was true, but that the term of which he was possessed was created four years before the defendant was possessed of his workshops and before he carried on his iron-mongery work there.

意味（2）

The process of promoting or spreading something undesirable.

Alehouses were more frequented, drunkenness more general, tale-mongery and sedition, the vices of sedentary idleness, prevailed, while a fanatical gloom was spreading over the country.

意味（3）

That which is sold by a monger.

A building contract provided that all iron mongery was to be furnished by the owner.

意味（4）

The building where a monger conducts business.

For, within the city lines a crawling, sticky stream, nor picturesque nor sweet to sight or smell, it yet hath smothered passions of its own, and for no graver provocation than an April shower will burst its feeble bounds, and, like Leigh Hunt's pig in Smithfield market, rush up all manner of streets, and over bridges, and down cellars, and through an unclassified abomination of mongeries, distributing mud, dead cats and promiscuous stenches with happy, lavish malice.