Obs. Also 6–7 -munger. A corn-dealer; often used with implication of greed or extortion.
c. 1515. Cocke Lorell’s B. (Percy Soc.), 10. Arowe heders, maltemen and corne mongers.
1580. Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 438. They haue more store of pasture then tillage … which maketh more grasiors then Cornemungers.
1603. Bp. Hall, Serm., 19. Ye Cormorant Cornmongers, hatch up a dearth in the time of plenty.
1614. T. Wilson, Comm. Rom. (1627), 596/1. The couetous vsurers, Cornemongers, oppressors, extortioners, &c. which mind their owne profit onely, without respect of pleasing God or their neighbour.
1814. Scott, Wav., xxxix. ‘The corn-mongers will make the auld price gude against them as has horses till keep.’
