Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

woo-monger

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English

Syllables: woo--mon-ger
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A proponent of pseudoscientific ideas or practices.

Derogatory; Informal

Example Sentences

"Wyley resorts to the usual rhetoric of all woo-mongers: that the belief they propose cannot be measured by the standards they apply to all other practices."
"Just as Cohen feels there is no natural party for humanists, Wilson feels there isn’t one for supporters of evidence-based policy. "There are good MPs in all parties, and there are woo-mongers in all parties," he says. “We have to look at each case individually. […]"
"If a site like Huffington Post, which just got funds to pay reporters, publicly eliminates their pseudoscience, HIV denialist, New Age woo-mongers and hires some real science/nature/medicine reporters instead, it is in a position to do the ‘push strategy’ on science."

Etymology

From woo + monger.

Usage

Inflected Forms

woo-mongers (plural)

Questions

What does woo-monger mean?: A proponent of pseudoscientific ideas or practices.
Where does woo-monger come from?: From woo + monger.

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