Mongering: What's your favourite thing to monger if not fear? *title edited by MNHQ*

[FunkyKingston]

Mine are

Cheese
Iron
And whores

In that order.

Costers.

And fish

Someone earlier today suggested caremongering, which I thought was rather nice.

You might wanna get MNHQ to change the title. Monger isn’t offensive but the shorter part of the word definitely is.

Have you just exhausted the list of things which can be mongered...?

No- fish! Fish can be mongered, and I like fish, but not as much as cheese.

And I like the smell in an ironmongers.

Do what?

Hate and gossip

And scares- but nobody really likes a scaremongerer...

What the what now?

to mong, as in mongering as in ironmonger, cheesemonger, fishmonger... totally fine.

Thread title is clearly in context and really not remotely open to misinterpretation.

I accuse of you of OFFENCEMONGERING @ShirleyPhallus

Why aren't butchers called meatmongers?

Or even a scaremonger 😬

A costermonger. Someone who sells fruit and vegetables. I had never heard of it before I looked up different types of monger on Google just now.

Flesh darling, but only my own.

Because they’re called butchers...

@ShirleyPhallus absolutely offencemongering that’s ridiculous.

Fish and coster. Every time

Meatmongering sounds deeply unappetising, and I love a steak so bloody a decent vet could bring it round.

I am an inveterate teamonger.

Cakemonger.

I want there to be a cakemonger. Ideally a mobile one.

Because they’re called butchers

Cheese and Fiah gets mongered, but meat doesn't.

War

Why can one mong cheese or iron but not cake or meat?

Definitely cheese.

Be grateful you're not in Scotland, AbsentmindedWoman. Butchers were (are?) called fleshers.

Coffee. I have a few favourite ones online.

Scavenged from the interwebtubenets..

You asked what one would be doing if one were simply to mong. Well, there is such a verb, and we’ve had it since Anglo-Saxon days.

"The verb “mong,” according to the OED, means to barter or trade in something, chiefly to trade or spread gossip, rumors, and so on.

We don’t see it much these days, and when we do, it’s often used in a comical way, as in this 1949 example from Ogden Nash: “These editorial scandalmongers have to mong scandal.”

( www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/11/monger.html )