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ˈfleshmonger
[see monger.]
One who deals in flesh.
†1. A butcher. Obs.
c1000Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 438 Lanio, flæscmangere. a1400in Eng. Gilds (1870) 354 Euerych fleshemongere..shal to þe kynge of custom fyue & twenty pans by þe ȝere. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. (Percy Soc.) 4 With slyngethryfte fleshemonger, Also fabyane flaterer. 1597Breton Wits Trenchmour Wks. (Grosart) II. 17/1 The Sonne of some Flesh-monger.
†2. A fornicator; a pander. Obs.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 337 Was the Duke a flesh-monger, a foole, and a coward, as you then reported him to be? 1624Heywood Captives ii. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, Inquire for us of wenshes? tush, wee fishe For no such perewinkles; farewell fleshmongere.
3. A slave-dealer.
1845F. Douglass Life (1846) 4 Cruel as the deed may strike any one to be, for a man to sell his own children to human flesh-mongers, it is often the dictate of humanity for him to do so. |