subs. (old).—A whoremonger.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS. Ballocks (or ballocker); beard-splitter; belly-bumper; bird (or cock) of the game; bird’s-nester; Bluebeard; bull; bum-faker (-tickler, -ranger, or -worker); button-hole-worker; carrion-hunter; cavaulter; chauvering-cove (or chauverer); chimney-sweep; cock-fighter; Corinthian: Don Juan; fish- (flesh- or meat-) monger; fuckster; gamecock; goat; high priest of Paphos; horseman; hot- (or warm-) member; hot-’un; jumbler; king of clubs; knocker; ladies’ tailor; leather-stretcher; leg-lifter; ling-grappler; miller; molrower; Mormon; Mr. Horner, muttoner; performer; petticoat-merchant; prick-scourer; quim-sticker; rattle-cap; rifle-man; rump-splitter; sharpshooter; smell-smock; Solomon; sports-man; stallion; striker; thrumster; town- (or parish-) bull; twat-faker; tummy-tickler; wencher; woodman.
FRENCH SYNONYMS. Un abatteur de bois (popular); un acteur (general); un ami (prostitutes’) un Anglais; un bébé; un bobosse (common); un boche (popular); un bordelier (general); un boucaneur (popular); un boxonneur (boxon = brothel); un cascadeur (theatrical); un chaud de la pince (popular); un chevaucheur (popular); un courasson or vieux courasson (familiar); un coureur (popular); un cousin; un couvreur; un dénicheur de fauvettes; un enfilé à la rigolade (thieves’); un étalon (= STALLION); un fouailleur (popular); un godilleur (popular); un goteur (popular); un gourgandin (popular); un Hercule (common); un homme à femmes (common: also, un homme ardent, and un homme à ressorts); un juponnier; un larcottier (old French); un leveur de femmes (common); un amant de la lune (popular); un matou (= molrower); un menin (old French); un miché, michet, or micheton (popular: from michon = money); un milord; un noctambule (popular); un novateur des plaisirs (popular); un paillard (old); un paillasson (= mattress); un porté sur l’article (popular); un roumard (thieves’).
1594. Look About You, Sc. 28 [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, vii. 473]. Blo. Ah, old MUTTONMONGER, I believe here’s work towards.
1598. FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Feminiére, a whore-monger, a frequenter of women, a MUTTON MONGER. Also belonging or pertaining to women.
1600. Sir John Oldcastle, ii. 1. [MALONE, Suppt. ii. 294].
| Harp. You whooreson bawdy priest! | |
| Wroth. You old MUTTON MONGER. |
1602. DEKKER, The Honest Whore [DODSLEY, Old Plays, iii. 405]. Is’t possible that the lord Hipolito, whose face is as civil as the outside of a dedicatory book, should be a MUTTON-MUNGER?
1611. CHAPMAN, May-Day, ii. p. 38. As if you were the only noted MUTTON-MONGER in all the city.
1611. COTGRAVE, Dictionarie, A noteable smel-smocke, or MUTTONMONGER, a cunning solicitor of a wench.
1654. WEBSTER, Appius and Virginia [Ancient Drama, v. 400], iii. MUTTON’S MUTTON now. V. Why, was it not so ever? C. No, madam, the sinners i’ the suburbs had almost ta’en the name quite away from it, ’twas so cheap and common; but now ’tis at a sweet reckoning; the term time is the MUTTON-MONGER in the whole calendar.
1677. E. COLES, English Dictionary, s.v. MUTTON-MONGER, scortator.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1847. HALLIWELL, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, etc., s.v. MOTONER. A wencher.
