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garlicmonger

garlicmonger noun: a seller of garlic.

Noun

garlicmonger (plural garlicmongers)

  1. (historical) A seller of garlic.
    • […] a plethora of taverns, victuals, brew houses, hostelries, bathhouses, brothels, bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas jostled for space with shops of stockfishmongers, garlicmongers, and bakemongers.2009, Rona Sharon, Royal Blood
    • In the real world a network of middlemen handled goods of all kind: even in the apparently simple world of horticulture leekmongers and garlicmongers bought up sacks of vegetables and passed them on to retailers.2018, Jon Stobart, Vicki Howard, The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing

Forms of garlicmonger

pluralgarlicmongers

Origin of garlicmonger

From garlic + monger.

Questions about garlicmonger

What does garlicmonger mean?
Garlicmonger means a seller of garlic.
What part of speech is garlicmonger?
Garlicmonger is a noun.
What is the plural of garlicmonger?
The plural of garlicmonger is garlicmongers.

Words near garlicmonger in the dictionary

  1. garlicking
  2. garlicks
  3. garlicky
  4. garlicless
  5. garliclike
  6. garlicmonger
  7. garlicmongers
  8. garlics
  9. garlicvine
  10. garlicwort
  11. garlicy

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