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Was this newspaper article just playing with words? Or is "mong" a real word, and if so, is it in current use?
The Poles would much prefer to buy their fish at market. Trouble is, British fishmongers no longer mong it. | ||
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I'd say it's a jocular back-fomration from monger, because the -er looks like a noun agentive suffix. If you look it up, it has an interesting etymology, from Old English mangere from Latin mango, mangōnis, 'dealer in slaves', possibly from Greek μαγγανον (manganon) 'any means for charming or bewitching; philtre'. —Ceci n'est pas un seing. | |||
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