barrow-boy

[bar-oh-boi]

bar·row-boy

[bar-oh-boi]
noun British.
a man or boy who sells wares from a barrow; costermonger.

Origin:
1935–40
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Barrow-boy is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
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barrow-boy

noun
a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow [syn: costermonger
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