Cheesemongers

== English == === Etymology === So called after a relaxation of the social qualifications for recruitment, which meant that tradesmen (as opposed to gentlemen) could sign up. === Proper noun === the Cheesemongers (UK, slang, obsolete) The Life Guards (British army regiment). ==== References ==== John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary‎[1] Nicknames of British Units during the Napoleonic Wars