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单词 cheesemonger
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cheesemongern.

Brit. /ˈtʃiːzˌmʌŋɡə/, U.S. /ˈtʃizˌmɑŋɡər/, /ˈtʃizˌməŋɡər/
Forms: see cheese n.1 and monger n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cheese n.1, monger n.1
Etymology: < cheese n.1 + monger n.1In sense 2 said to have arisen in the late 18th cent. with allusion to the fact that many officers of First Life Guards at the time came from the merchant or trading classes; compare the following:1788 Frederick, Duke of York Let. 26 July in C. Ross Corresp. Charles First Marquis Cornwallis (1859) I. xi. 389 I have no doubt that Your Lordship will not regret the reduction of the four troops of Horse Guards, and Horse Grenadiers as they were the most useless and the most unmilitary Troops that ever were seen. I confess that I was a little sorry for the Horse Grenadiers because they were to a degree Soldiers, but the Horse Guards were nothing but a collection of London Tradespeople.
1. A person who sells or deals in cheese.Attested earliest in surnames.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > sellers of other provisions
cheesemonger1185
pudding-wife1287
eirmongerc1305
honeyman1510
egg-wife1659
corn-chandler1687
pickle man1714
tea man1736
pickle dealer1791
iceman1807
ice-creamer1851
plum duffer1851
barm-man1913
traiteur1963
1185–6 in Discovery (1921) 2 3 (MED) Baldwin le chesemangere.
1437 Close Roll, 15 Henry VI (P.R.O.: C 54/287) m. 14v Alexander Reve Ciuis & Chesemonger.
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vv Fruyters, chese mongers, and mynstrelles.
1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies 127 One ask'd a Cheesmonger what was the reason that butter and Cheese were so deere.
1607 T. Middleton Phoenix sig. C3 Why Pistor a Baker sold his wife tother day to a cheese-monger.
1662 Act 14 Charles II c. 26 §3 in Statutes of Realm (1963) V. 421 No Cheese monger..shall repack for sale any Butter in any Kinderkin Firkin or other Cask or Pott.
1733 Capt. Downes All Vows Kept iii. v. 41 You Beast you; you stink like a Cheesemonger.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 181 They make cheesemongers and pastrycooks Knights.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxviii. 284 Mr. Winkle..is nearly precipitated into the street, as the coach twists round the sharp corner by the cheese-monger's shop.
1885 Law Times 79 318/2 The business of a grocer and cheesemonger.
1925 Cheltenham Chron. 12 Dec. 8/3 Young and Gilling..was flourishing, in spite of the apparent opposition of a gentleman, who doubled the occupations of house-agent and cheese-monger on the same premises.
1985 Times (Nexis) 12 Oct. More important is to know a cheesemonger who knows his cheese.
2014 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 22 Oct. Some cheesemongers will give you leftover rinds for free.
2. In plural. The (First) Life Guards (see lifeguard n. 1). Cf. cheese n.1 6. Now historical.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > British
Ulsters1649
Scots Guardsa1675
fusilier1680
guards1682
Scots Dragoons1689
Scots Fusiliers1689
Inniskilling1715
Scots Greys1728
blue1737
Black Watch1739
Oxford blues1766
green linnets1793
Grenadiers1800
slashers1802
the Buffs1806
tartan1817
Gay Gordons1823
cheesemongers1824
Green Jacket1824
The Bays1837
RHA1837
dirty half-hundred1841
die-hard1844
lifeguard1849
cherry-picker1865
lancer-regiment1868
cheeses1877
Territorial Regiment1877
the Sweeps1879
dirty shirts1887
Scottish Rifles1888
shiner1891
Yorkshire1898
imperials1899
Irish guards1902
Hampshires1904
BEF1914
Old Contemptibles1915
contemptibles1917
Tank Corps1917
the Tins1918
skins1928
pioneer corps1939
red devils1943
Blues and Royals1968
U.D.R.1969
1824 European Mag. & London Rev. July 305/2 His majesty's life-guards, (satirically called the cheese-mongers, real weighty and most responsible citizens), boldly bumped along by his side.
1827 Guards I. 15 You are talking of a dark age..when the Life Guards were called the Cheesemongers; all gingerbread and gold leaf; shopkeepers and freeholders.
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 115 Cheesemongers, once a popular name for the First Lifeguards.
1893 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 10 125/1 ‘Come on, you Cheesemongers!’ the bantering cry of a commanding officer of a cavalry regiment of the Household Brigade at Waterloo.
2010 R. Burnham & R. Mcguigan Brit. Army against Napoleon iii. 121 (table) Nicknames of the cavalry regiments... The Life Guards. The Cheeses or Cheesemongers.

Derivatives

ˈcheesemongerly adj. Obsolete
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a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 21 This hind-counter, cheesemongerly, Newmarket, cock-fighting figment.
ˈcheesemongery n. the products sold by a cheesemonger; (also) the business of selling cheese.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > goods sold by other specific traders
cutlery1624
saltery ware1628
millinery1676
ironmongery1711
hardware1723
cheesemongery1760
confectionery1769
hosiery1790
hattery1824
drysaltery1847
shoemercery1862
drapery1897
1760 Public Ledger 29 Feb. A House and Shop in the Cheesemongery Business.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1839) 359 Mr. Tuggs attended to the grocery department, Mrs. Tuggs to the cheesemongery.
1922 Times 30 Aug. 17/3 Tenders are invited for the supply of Bread, Cheesemongery, Fish, Fowls, Grocery, Meat, Milk, and Potatoes to St. Thomas's Hospital.
2003 Financial Times 20 Sept. 10 He was taken on..to help run the Cheese Shop in Chester and learn cheesemongery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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