Word Meanings - FASHION-MONGERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.

Related words: (words related to FASHION-MONGERING)

• FASHION-MONGERING
  Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
• FASHIONED
  Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
• FASHION-MONGER
  One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
• FASHIONABLY
  In a fashionable manner.
• FASHIONABLENESS
  State of being fashionable.
• BEHAVIOR
  Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular
• FASHION
  orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to make. See 1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
• FASHIONABLE
  1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress. 2. Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy;
• FASHIONLESS
  Having no fashion.
• FASHIONIST
  An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions. Fuller.
• BEHAVE
  to have, sich gehaben to behave or carry one's self); pref. 1. To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. Shak. 2. To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear;
• MONGER
  manga to trade, mangari a trader, OHG. mangari, mengari; cf. L. mango 1. A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger. 2. A small merchant vessel. Blount.
• FASHIONER
  One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything. The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home. Sir W. Scott.
• NEWSMONGER
  One who deals in news; one who is active in hearing and telling news.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• WHOREMONGER
  A whoremaster; a lecher; a man who frequents the society of whores.
• COSTERMONGER
  An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.
• REFASHIONMENT
  The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned. Leigh Hunt.
• BOOKMONGER
  A dealer in books.
• IRONMONGER
  A dealer in iron or hardware.
• FANCYMONGER
  A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. Shak.
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• IRONMONGERY
  Hardware; a general name for all articles made of iron. Gwilt.
• STARMONGER
  A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt. B. Jonson.
• BOROUGHMONGERING; BOROUGHMONGERY
  The practices of a boroughmonger.
• MERITMONGER
  One who depends on merit for salvation. Milner.