Things that you can mong:
* Wars
* Fish
* Kills
Am I missing anything?
@bgcarlisle Iron, I think.
Also, I think it's the collective, you monger: "war" not "wars". Obviously, "killmonger" is ridiculous. It should be Deathmonger, since "death" is uncountable. 😜
@benhamill @bgcarlisle Are fish, scandals, and geese also uncountable?
@dredmorbius @bgcarlisle I've never heard of scandalmonger or goosemonger. Hmm.
Fish (or many other very old animal words) are semi-uncountable. When you say, "I'm going to hunt deer" it's not really equivalent to "I'm going to hunt buttons." They have a collective/uncountable form that's also the same as the singular and the plural and it has to do with originally having been uncountable, IIRC.
@dredmorbius @bgcarlisle I don't know what H and A mean here.
Also, this is pretty interesting: https://www.etymonline.com/word/monger The verb is younger than the noun and that's why it's "monger" as well and not "mong". But the -er really is the agentive suffix , so expecting "mong" is silly sounding but also right in it's own way. Which I find delightful.
@bgcarlisle @benhamill I am letting myself out the back....
@benhamill @bgcarlisle The dictionary list I put out (via Debian's various included dictionaries) was rather larger than I'd anticipated. Some interesting bits in there.
Speaking of which, "bitmonger" really should Be A Thing.
@dredmorbius @bgcarlisle Oooooh that's nice. And makes me think of things like "bitsmith", too. Which has a nice look AND sound.
@benhamill @bgcarlisle "Scandalmonger" is a Legitimate Thing:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=scandalmonger&t=ffab&ia=definition
@dredmorbius @bgcarlisle Oh I believe you. I've just never come across it.
@benhamill @bgcarlisle In the case of goose, the word-particle is _not_ a suffix.
One may also mong H's.