单词 | newsmongering |
释义 | newsmongeringn. Usually derogatory. The practice or business of gathering and narrating news; gossiping. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > newsmongering newsmongery1592 news-telling1611 newsmongering1707 1707 ‘Person of Quality’ Ess. Serious & Comical 33 And Journey-men Taylors, not willing to differ from the general Custom of Newsmongering, are as industrious in enquiring after an Express from the Duke of Marlborough or Prince Eugene, as they are in making a Suit of Cloaths on an Easter Eve. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. iv. 61 The mechanical operations of the spirit of newsmongering. 1853 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 15 Oct. 161/2 Caballing on doorsteps,..or newsmongering on kerb-stones. 1962 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 34 437/2 Newsmongering was a money-making occupation. Newsmen also believed in the usefulness of the service they performed. 1989 Economist 25 Mar. 6/4 It is a fine novel of literary merit..a fact which somehow seems to get lost in all the irresponsible gossip and newsmongering. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). newsmongeringadj. Usually derogatory. Gossipy; characteristic of a newsmonger. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > news or tidings > [adjective] > given to retailing news newsmongering1784 newsy1886 1784 Intrepid Mag. No. 1. (Polit. & Misc.) 55/2 Mr. Jackson, noticing the number of newsmongering politicians, who hourly pop into Stockdale's Shop, suggested to him, that [etc.]. 1802 G. Dyer Funeral Procession of Polly Whitehead in Poems iii. 217 So curious and thoughtful, I now take my stand, With a troop of old gossips, a newsmongering band. 1877 E. Pfeiffer Glân-Alarch ii. 107 This while more often than in days gone by Newsmongering guests would come to share our cheer. 1921 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 27 202 It quite spoils whatever virtue there may be in this..by commercializing in its own news-mongering way murder, sex, crime, misfortune. 1994 USA Today (Nexis) May 21 The rhyming newswriters originated the image of the newsmongering journalist who gives the public what it wants no matter how ugly..the story. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1707adj.1784 |
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