Definition of "mongery"
mongery
noun
countable and uncountable, plural mongeries
The process of selling something of a specific type; the business of a monger.
Quotations
NOTICE is hereby given that the business of butchery and fish-mongery carried out at Government Lane, Nairobi, on premises LR No 209/560, by Sadrudm Jamal Jiwa Mussa and Amina Sadrudin Jama Jiwa Mussa, both of Nairobi in the Republic of Kenya, under the name or style of Family Butcher and Fish Monger, has, as from the 20th day of June, 1973, been sold and transferred to Evangeline Celeste Muh and Benjamin Jacob Mwakio, Nairobi, who will carry on the said business at the same place and under the same name and style of Family Butcher.
1948 May, “General Notice No. 888 The Fraudulent Transfer of Business Ordinance, 1930”, in Kenya Gazette, volume 75, number 29
The process of promoting or spreading something undesirable.
Quotations
For you have the whole Borough, with all its love-makings and scandal-mongeries, contentions and contentments, as in miniature, and could cover it all with your hat.
1831, Thomas Carlyle, “The Everlasting Yea”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], book second, page 129
That which is sold by a monger.
Quotations
The most important articles of Austrian trade are at present as follows: wood and wooden articles, iron, and iron mongery, paper and paper goods, (stationery), machinery, apparatus, textile fabrics, clothes, grain, leguminous plants, flour, vegetables, fats, fuel, chemical products, mechanical instruments, watches, leather and fancy goods and the so-called "Vienese articles" —ready-made clothes, furniture, cars and carriages, leather goods, articles for smokers, works of art, articles produced by the arts and crafts and cigarette paper.
1921, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
The building where a monger conducts business.
Quotations
For, within the city lines a crawling, sticky stream, nor picturesque nor sweet to sight or smell, it yet hath smothered passions of its own, and for no graver provocation than an April shower will burst its feeble bounds, and, like Leigh Hunt's pig in Smithfield market, "rush up all manner of streets," and over bridges, and down cellars, and through an unclassified abomination of mongeries, distributing mud, dead cats and promiscuous stenches with happy, lavish malice.
1871 September, J.W. Palmer, “The City of Monuments”, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature, volume 8, page 271