Wondermonger

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who deals in wondrous things.

    "[…] mechanical puzzles, juggling tricks, sensational dramas, and popular music — in a word, whatever a wondermonger can collect to allure the curious and idle many to amusement at small individual cost to them but lucrative to the showman."

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"[…] mechanical puzzles, juggling tricks, sensational dramas, and popular music — in a word, whatever a wondermonger can collect to allure the curious and idle many to amusement at small individual cost to them but lucrative to the showman."

Etymology

From wonder + monger.

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