A person who deals in bribes or facilitates bribery; someone who trades in corrupt payments.
Combines 'bribe' with '-monger' (a person who deals in something, from Old English 'mangere' meaning merchant). Emerged in 16th-17th century English to describe corrupt officials and their intermediaries.
Like 'fishmonger' sells fish and 'scaremonger' spreads fear, a bribemonger is a merchant of corruption—they're the middlemen of dishonesty. The word fell out of use partly because English came to prefer more direct accusations like 'corrupt official.'
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