watermonger

noun

watermonger

noun

Etymology From water + monger.

1

A seller of water.

In 1849 the watermongers had not yet appeared. One man who offered $50 for a drink found that there was none for sale.1997, James W. Ely, Property Rights in the Colonial Era and Early Republic, page 287:

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