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单词 corn-monger
释义

corn-mongern.

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s -munger.
Obsolete.
A corn-dealer; often used with implication of greed or extortion.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in grain
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?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
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