Monger may refer to:

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Peddler A peddler (American English) or pedlar (British English) is a door-to-door and/or travelling vendor of good (economics), goods. In 19th-century United States the word "drummer" was often used to refer to a peddler or traveling salesman; as exem ...

, a traveling vendor of goods * a merchant dealer, such as: **

Costermonger A costermonger, coster, or costard is a street seller of fruit and vegetables in British towns. The term is derived from the words ''Costard (apple), costard'' (a medieval variety of apple) and ''monger'' (seller), and later came to be used to des ...

, a street seller of fruit and vegetables; in Britain also general (synonym) peddler ** Cheesemonger, a specialist seller of cheeses **

Fellmonger A fellmonger was a dealer in hides or skins, particularly sheepskins, who might also prepare skins for tanning. The name is derived from the Old English Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English ...

, a merchant of hides and skins **

Fishmonger A fishmonger (historically fishwife for female practitioners) is someone who sells raw fish and seafood. Fishmongers can be wholesalers or retailers and are trained at selecting and purchasing, handling, gutting, boning, filleting, displaying, ...

, a wholesaler or retailer of raw fish and seafood **

Ironmonger Ironmongery originally referred, first, to the manufacture of iron goods and, second, to the place of sale of such items for domestic rather than industrial use. In both contexts, the term has expanded to include items made of steel, aluminium ...

, a supplier of iron goods, or in the modern sense a hardware store *

Whoremonger Clients of prostitutes or sex workers are sometimes known as ''johns'' or ''tricks'' in North America and ''punters'' in Britain and Ireland. In common parlance among sex workers as well as with others, the act of negotiating and then engaging with ...

, a sex worker's client

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* Monger (surname) *

Lake Monger Galup, formerly Lake Monger (Noongar: Galup, Keiermulu) is a large urban wetland on the Swan Coastal Plain in suburban Wembley, Western Australia, nestled between the suburbs of Leederville, Wembley and Glendalough. Located less than from ...

, a large urban wetland in Perth, Western Australia *

Monger Lake Monger may refer to: Traders * Peddler, a traveling vendor of goods * a merchant dealer, such as: ** Costermonger, a street seller of fruit and vegetables; in Britain also general (synonym) peddler ** Cheesemonger, a specialist seller of cheeses ...

, a watershed of the Ha! Ha! River in Quebec * Mongers Lake, a lake in Western Australia

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