What's the difference between monger and wonger?

Monger


Definition:

  • (n.) A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.
  • (n.) A small merchant vessel.
  • (v. t.) To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) First, Dr Collins is fear-mongering when he says that ‘lives will be lost’ as a result of our calculations.
  • (2) So far the doom-mongers, including wishful-thinking opponents of the monarchy, have been proved wrong.
  • (3) Ditto selecting the right setlist from a back catalogue that's prone to end-of-the-world doom-mongering.
  • (4) Meanwhile, those occasionally reliable rumour-mongers over at Latino Review have posited a third scenario.
  • (5) This pernicious fear-mongering is dangerous and frustrating to deal with, and its targeting of those most likely to face discrimination has led to trans issues being quietly eliminated from non-discrimination legislation before.
  • (6) CAP president Cathi Herrod is urging Brewer to sign the legislation and deriding what she called “fear-mongering” from its opponents.
  • (7) But restrictions create fertile ground for rumour-mongering.
  • (8) George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, delivered an economically illiterate, and fear-mongering, rant to the Tory conference claiming that Britain is drowning in a sea of debt.
  • (9) The chief's critics, however, say Timoney's handling of protests and gatherings in each of the cities he's served in are wrought with examples of police abuse, illegal infiltration tactics, fear-mongering and a blatant disregard for freedom of expression.
  • (10) Chancellor Angela Merkel in her new year address on Thursday asked Germans to see refugee arrivals as “an opportunity for tomorrow” and urged doubters not to follow racist hate-mongers.
  • (11) We’re bombarded with stats and figures and doom-mongering from people on the telly who we can’t connect with, but the decisions made by the people in charge affect our day-to-day wellbeing.
  • (12) He’s using fear-mongering reminiscent of Nazi Germany and Stalin.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘This is outrageous’: US Muslim leader condemns Trump’s call to ban Muslims A significant silence that had followed past outrageous statements by Trump – in which Republican elders have declined direct confrontation, and the targets of his remarks have seemed humiliated or intimidated – seemed finally shattered at the billionaire’s latest offense.
  • (13) It was an incredible turnaround from just a week before, even for the American fear-mongering machine.
  • (14) We must deal with intrigue-mongers and provocateurs.
  • (15) If they want to punish rumour-mongers, they should punish the state media, too."
  • (16) The roots of this fear-mongering are deep, and when Ebola finally landed it fell on fertile soil .
  • (17) Saving the nation was why he yoked his party to Cameron: this speech reprised his scare-mongering Greek comparisons.
  • (18) Many of these fears are a reaction to the scare-mongering of vested interest groups or a misunderstanding of how the tax will work.
  • (19) Other media have taken similar stands in public, with one private TV channel saying it intended to bar certain guests from its political programmes on charges of being “rumour mongers” – parlance for government critics.
  • (20) Acta 440, 765--771) and with those inferred from the decay at 4.2 degrees K of the triplet-triplet absorption after picosecond excitation (Parson, W.W. and Monger, T.G.

Wonger


Definition:

  • (n.) See Wanger.

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