mongeries

Noun

mongery (countable and uncountable, plural mongeries)

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.1852, The Western Law Journal - Volume 9, page 446
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.1816, Ralph Griffiths, The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, page 248
3. That which is sold by a monger.
   • A building contract provided that all iron mongery was to be furnished by the owner.1901, De Witt Clinton Blashfield, George Foster Longsdorf, Abbott's Cyclopedic Digest of All the Decisions of All the Courts of New York from the Earliest Time to the Year 1900, Volume 3
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...1871 September, J.W. Palmer, “The City of Monuments”, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature, volume 8, page 271