[see MONGER.] One who sells or deals in cheese.
c. 1510. Cocke Lorelles B., 9. Fruyters, chese mongers, and mynstrelles.
1662. Act 14 Chas. II., c. 26 § 3. No Cheese monger … shall repack for sale any Butter in any Kinderkin, Firkin, [etc.].
1760. Goldsm., Cit. World, CX. They make cheesemongers and pastrycooks knights.
1885. Law Times, LXXIX. 318/2. The business of a grocer and cheesemonger.
Hence Cheesemongering vbl. sb. and ppl. a. (fig. in quot.), Cheesemongerly a. (often contemptuous); Cheesemongery, the commodities sold by a cheesemonger.
1839. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Tuggs’s at Ramsgate. Mr. Tuggs attended to the grocery department; Mrs. Tuggs to the cheesemongery.
a. 1849. H. Coleridge, Ess. (1851), II. 21. This hind-counter, cheesemongerly, Newmarket, cock-fighting figment.
1859. Sat. Rev., VII. 489/2. A cheesemongering estimate of Parliamentary qualifications.
1883. Daily News, 18 Sept., 1/5. Contracts for Butcher’s Meat, Cheesemongery, and Flour.
