monger
One who trades
A monger is someone who deals in or promotes a particular commodity or activity.
The literal sense survives in compounds like fishmonger and ironmonger (more common in British English).
The figurative sense dominates in American usage, usually with negative connotations: a warmonger promotes conflict, a rumormonger spreads gossip, a fearmonger stokes anxiety for effect.
The suffix -monger attaches productively to create new compounds: The senator dismissed his critics as mere hatemongers.
Street fruit and vegetable seller
- vendorOne who sells goods
- merchantOne who sells wares
- traderOne who transacts commercially
- dealerOne who sells goods
purveyor · hawker · peddler · shopkeeper · retailer · wholesaler · stall · wares
One spreading exaggerated fears
- hatemongerOne who promotes prejudice
- rumormongerOne who spreads unverified talk
- whoremongerPatron of prostitutes
- alarmistOne who overstates threats
agitator · inciter · provocateur · instigator · troublemaker · demagogue · sensationalist · exploiter
costermonger
Street fruit and vegetable seller
dealer · purveyor · hawker · peddler · shopkeeper · retailer · wholesaler · stall · wares · goods
scaremonger
One spreading exaggerated fears
- hatemongerOne who promotes prejudice
- rumormongerOne who spreads unverified talk
- whoremongerPatron of prostitutes
alarmist · agitator · inciter · provocateur · instigator · troublemaker · demagogue · sensationalist · exploiter · peddler
peddle
Sell goods informally
deal · hawk · disseminate · circulate · propagate · promote · push · trade · broker · market
- merchantstraders, merchant, merchants, retailers, vendors
- traderstrader, merchant, retailer, vendor, dealer
- vendorsstreet vendors, seller, hawkers, merchant, peddler
- commercetrade, banking, merchant, imports, sales
- medieval trademerchant, merchant guilds, trader, craft guilds, guild
- pitchmenpitchman, pitchwoman, hawker, barker, huckster
mongerpeacemaker
Conflict resolution agent
suppressor · pacifier · conciliator · silencer · censor
- fear mongeringDeliberate spreading of exaggerated threats
- fear mongersThose spreading exaggerated dangers
- rumor mongersSpreaders of unverified talk
- rumor mongeringSpreading unverified information
- fish mongerRetailer of fresh catch
- cheese mongerSeller of fermented dairy
warmonger, fishmonger, warmongering, gossipmonger, ironmonger, mongers, scandalmonger, fearmonger, cheesemonger