Word.ws English Dictionary

muttonmongers

muttonmongers is the plural of muttonmonger.

Meaning of muttonmonger

Noun

muttonmonger (plural muttonmongers)

  1. (obsolete) A pimp.
  2. (obsolete) A frequent customer of prostitutes.
    • As arrant a smell-smock, for an old muttonmonger as thyself.1604, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part 2, act 4, scene 1; Rhys, Ernest, editor, Thomas Dekker, unexpurgated edition, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887, page 247
    Synonyms:
    whoremonger

Questions about muttonmongers

What is muttonmongers the plural of?
Muttonmongers is the plural of muttonmonger.

Words near muttonmongers in the dictionary

  1. muttonheads
  2. muttonhood
  3. muttoniness
  4. muttonish
  5. muttonmonger
  6. muttonmongers
  7. muttons
  8. muttonwood
  9. muttonwoods
  10. muttony
  11. Muttra

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: muttonmongers (page history and authors); muttonmonger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “muttonmongers.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/muttonmongers. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.