单词 | murdermonger |
释义 | murdermongern. 1. A writer or purveyor of murder stories. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material metaphrast1610 lasher1611 pastoralist1619 amorist1642 travel writer1711 party writer1715 Poor Richard1757 murdermonger1785 manners-painter1807 institutionalist1817 paroemiographer1823 nautical1831 nonsense-writera1835 recaster1841 serialist1845 snobographer1848 librettist1862 palindromist1872 fragmentist1874 text-man1900 scriptwriter1911 paradoxographer1917 absurdist1929 blogger1999 weblogger1999 1785 R. Cumberland Nat. Son iii. 42 I..turn'd murder-monger to a morning paper... And what's murder-monger, I would fain ask? Casualty-compiler, an' please you, inventer of murders to amuse our customers. a1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang (1889) I. 139/1 The only one who is annoyed is our own special murder-monger, who has got several blood-curdlers of English extraction up his sleeve. 2. A person who commits or incites murder; a professional murderer. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin banea800 murthereOE quellerOE manslaughta1225 manquellec1275 murderer1340 Cainc1380 drepera1400 sicariana1400 murder mana1450 interfector1450 murdrier1481 murdresara1500 assassin1531 cut-throat1535 cutter1569 baner1605 brave1606 bravo1609 dagger-mana1616 assassinate1621 assassinator1651 sword-taker1660 assassinant1662 banesman1870 hatchet man1876 murdermonger1900 hit-man1970 mechanic1972 contract killer1980 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > crime or detective novel > writer of murder man1890 detectivist1892 murdermonger1900 crime writer1914 detective novelist1926 murdermongeress1957 1900 M. Hewlett Life & Death Richard Yea-and-Nay ii. vi. 299 She knew something of the Marquess, her cousin. Any ally of his must be a murdermonger. 1909 W. S. Gilbert Fallen Fairies I. 190 The demon deeds Of all the goblin murder-mongers that Infest that sink of seething infamy! 1993 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 30 Nov. 9 c What if those law-abiding folks no longer had handguns? It would be harder for the murdermongers to get their hands on the weapons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1785 |
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