Other forms: cheesemongers
A cheesemonger is somebody whose trade is selling cheese. The local cheesemonger, ask the cheesemonger, a cheesemonger's counter.
A good one will let you taste before buying and will tell you when something is not at its best, which is the whole reason to use one. The monger in it is the old word for a dealer.
1nouncheesemongerSomebody whose trade is selling cheese.
“The cheesemonger cut us a wedge of creamy Brie and wrapped it in paper.”
cheesemonger is a trader.
Cheese plus monger, from Old English mangere, a trader.
From cheese + monger.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA