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airmonger

airmonger noun: a hopeless visionary, a quixotic or unrealistic schemer.

Noun

airmonger (plural airmongers)

  1. A hopeless visionary, a quixotic or unrealistic schemer.
    • Check thy self, thou Air-monger; that with a madding thought, thus chasest fleeting shadows.1670, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, 9th edition, page 26
    • Thus Men puff up themselves as big as Pride and Vanty can make them, with a conceit of their own Meritoriousness; tho it be a sordid thing for a man to be the Herald of his own Praise: But it may be said of these Airmongers as it is of the Cameleon, which is […] Nothing but Lungs […]1684, The Accomplish’d Lady, or Deserving Gentlewoman […], page 48

Forms of airmonger

pluralairmongers

Origin of airmonger

From air + monger.

Questions about airmonger

What does airmonger mean?
Airmonger means a hopeless visionary, a quixotic or unrealistic schemer.
What part of speech is airmonger?
Airmonger is a noun.
What is the plural of airmonger?
The plural of airmonger is airmongers.

Words near airmonger in the dictionary

  1. AIRMETs
  2. airminded
  3. airmiss
  4. airmisses
  5. airmobile
  6. airmonger
  7. airmongers
  8. airn
  9. airna
  10. airnas
  11. airned

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