mongering, vbl. n.
(ˈmʌŋgərɪŋ)
[f. monger n.1 + -ing1. Cf. soldiering.]
Trading, trafficking. Chiefly used, like monger, as a second element in compounds, with a like implication.
| 1846 Thorpe ælfric's Hom. II. 95 Let none of them undertake any reeveship or mongering. 1867 H. C. Lea Sacerdotal Celibacy xxv. (1884) 413 The salvation mongering of Tetzel. 1892 Stevenson Across the Plains 314 All these..militant mongerings of moral half-truths. |
So ˈmongering ppl. a., as in borough-mongering.