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costermonger

[ kos-ter-mong-ger, -muhng-, kaw-ster- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Also called cos·ter [kos, -ter, kaw, -ster]. a hawker of fruit, vegetables, fish, etc.

to sell fruit, vegetables, fish, etc., from a cart, barrow, or stall in the streets.

costermonger

/ ˈkɒstəˌmʌŋɡə /

First recorded in 1505–15; earlier costerdmonger; costard, monger

C16: coster-, from costard + monger

But they keep peddling them like a costermonger selling rotten fruit.

With horror she had heard her brother addressed by a disreputable costermonger in a mangy fur cap, as "Old pal."

You remember the costermonger whose family quarrelled with him for marrying beneath him?

Any attempt at courtship after the style of the costermonger is resented by the whole corvine community.

But when the Major overstrains his voice, it misses fire like a costermonger's, and only a falsetto note comes on a high register.

If she had been a little female costermonger she would have demanded her 'marriage lines' and clung to them fiercely.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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