newsmongern.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. L2 ^v Looke to it you Bookesellers & Stationers, and let not your shops bee infected with any such goose gyblets or stinking garbadge, as the Iygs of newsmongers.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 25 By smiling pickthanks, and base newesmongers . View more context for this quotation

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 302 The Complementall visitant Athenian, Newes-monger, and Amorous Trifler.

1692 R. Bentley Confut. Atheism from Struct. & Origin Humane Bodies: Pt. II 4 Cardan..and other News-mongers from the Skies.

1724 J. Swift Let. to People of Ireland 3 Wood prescribes to the News-Mongers in London what they are to write.

1758 A. Murphy Upholsterer ii. 32 Go thy Ways for an old Hocus pocus of a News-monger—You'll have good Luck if you find your Daughter here when you come back.

1792 F. Burney Let. 22 Feb. in Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) II. 24 We hear no news here,..& see no news-papers & not an English news-monger.

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 254 She is a gentle newsmonger, and turns her scandal on the sunny side.

1852 Bentley's Misc. 31 279 A solid old gentleman, very unlike the young go-a-head newsmonger of our day.

1884 W. J. Courthope Addison v. 82 Towards the end of the sixteenth century newsmongers began to issue little pamphlets.

1923 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 29 280 The editor, meanwhile, no longer a mere newsmonger and humble recorder of events, found himself the mouthpiece of a political party.

1990 R. Jordan Eye of World iv. 49 I am a gleeman, not a newsmonger.

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. H4 That..which ascrutinie..hath concluded to be viler, than newesmungrie.

1928 F. P. Grove Search for Amer. ii. iv. 179 People whose intellectual food consists in the daily papers, the gossip and newsmongery of the Press.