Obs. [see MONGER.] One who deals in flesh.

1

  1.  A butcher.

2

c. 1000.  Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 438. Lanio, flæscmangere.

3

a. 1400.  in Eng. Gilds (1870), 354. Þat euerych fleshemongere, out of fraunchyse, þat haldeþ stal, shal to þe kynge of custom fyue & twenty pans by þe ȝere.

4

c. 1515.  Cocke Lorell’s B. (Percy Soc.), 4.

        With slyngethryfte fleshemonger:
Also fabyane flaterer,
And fesly claterer,
With adam auerus flayle swenger.

5

1597.  Breton, Wits Trenchmour, Wks. (Grosart), II. 17/1. This substantiall Yeoman, who as it should seeme to be the Sonne of some Flesh-monger, as Muttons, Beefes, and such like commodious kinde of Beasts.

6

  2.  A fornicator; a pander.

7

1603.  Shaks., Meas. for M., V. i. 337. Was the Duke a flesh-monger, a foole, and a coward, as you then reported him to be?

8

1624.  Heywood, Captives, II. ii., in Bullen, O. Pl., IV.

          1 Fish.  Inquire for us of wenshes? tush, wee fishe
For no such perewinkles; farewell flesh mongere.

9