mongery noun4 •The process of selling something of a specific type; the business of a monger. •The process of promoting or spreading something undesirable.Alehouses were more frequented, drunkenness more general, tale-mongery and sedition, the vices of sedentary idleness, prevailed, while a fanatical gloom was spreading over the country. — 1816 •That which is sold by a monger.A building contract provided that all iron mongery was to be furnished by the owner. — 1901 •The building where a monger conducts business.Although there are 75 seats and a kind of underwater flotsam decor in which fancy cocktails are served, the humble beauty of the mongery remains in the freshest fish served above sea level. — 1984 formsmongeries
