A person who trades in or sells ale commercially; similar to an aleger or tavern keeper.
Compound of 'ale' + 'monger' (from Old English 'mangere,' meaning trader or dealer), describing someone who makes a business of ale sales.
The '-monger' suffix was used for anyone peddling something—fishmonger, ironmonger, alemonger—but it also became an insult: warmonger, fear-monger, showing how word roots can flip meaning!
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