单词 | corn-monger |
释义 | † corn-mongern. Obsolete. A corn-dealer; often used with implication of greed or extortion. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in grain oatmonger1300 corn-monger?1518 corn-merchant1556 corn-master1579 swaler1597 hop-merchant1639 cornfactor1699 corn-dealer1707 corn-jobber1795 grain-merchant1838 grain-dealer1840 grain-bag1890 ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vjv Arowe heders, malte men and corne mongers. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 112 They haue more store of pasture then tillage,..which maketh more grasiors, then Cornmongers. 1608 Bp. J. Hall Pharisaisme & Christianity 84 Ye cormorant corne-mongers hatch vp a dearth in the time of plentie. 1614 T. Wilson Comm. Epist. S. Paul to Romanes xiv. §4. 1155 The couetous, vsurers, Cornemongers, oppressors, extortioners. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xvi. 244 The corn-mongers, will make the auld price gude against them as has horses till keep. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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