| 词汇 | warmonger |
| 词源 | warmonger. In the Latin dialect spoken by Roman soldiers in western Europe mangones were conniving dealers or traders in anything. This word passed into English as monger and was used for many compound words, including fishmonger. As early as 1590 one who traffics in war (for one reason or another) was called a warmonger, by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene. |
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