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# OH NO U CROTCHMONGLER
WTF R U DOING TO MY FAN?
(, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 0:54, archived)
# i'm digging 'crotchmongler'...
+10 for the made up verb!
(, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 1:00, archived)
# Why is it that the only people who 'mong' for a job...
are purveyors of fish and creators of metal objects?

I want meatmongers and greenmongers and milkmongers and coalmongers and healthmongers and lots more mongling.
(, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 1:02, archived)
# Clearly because:
O.E. mangere, from P.Gmc. mangojan (cf. O.S. mangon, O.N. manga), from L. mango (gen. mangonis) "dealer, trader," from a noun derivative of Gk. manganon "contrivance, means of enchantment," from PIE base *mang- "to embellish, dress, trim." Used in comb. form in Eng. since at least 12c.; since 16c. chiefly with overtones of petty and disreputable. The modern verb is first recorded 1928, from the noun (but there was a verb form in O.E.).

I think the important thing we can learn from this is that the existence of the Latin word 'MANGO'
(, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 1:05, archived)
# that's a good point.
and how does scaremongering fit into all that? does mongering actually mean spreading, selling, or heating up and bending into interesting shapes?
(, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 1:05, archived)
# cheesemongers
and whoremongers

together at last
(, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 9:00, archived)
# :)
(, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 1:09, archived)