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costermonger
cos·ter·mon·ger
/
ˈkɒs
tərˌmʌŋ
gər, -ˌmɒŋ-, ˈkɔ
stər-
/
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[
kos
-ter-muhng-ger, -mong-,
kaw
-ster-
]
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Chiefly British
.
noun
1.
Also called
coster
.
a hawker of fruit, vegetables, fish, etc.
verb (used without object)
2.
to sell fruit, vegetables, fish, etc., from a cart, barrow, or stall in the streets; coster.
Origin:
1505–15;
earlier
costerdmonger.
See
costard
,
monger
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costermonger
or
coster
(ˈkɒstəˌmʌŋɡə)
—
n
rare
(
Brit
) a person who sells fruit, vegetables, etc, from a barrow
[C16:
coster-,
from
costard
+
monger
]
coster
or
coster
—
n
[C16:
coster-,
from
costard
+
monger
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
costermonger
1510s, "itinerant apple-seller" from coster (see
costard
) +
monger
. Sense extended from "apple-seller" to any salesman who plied his wares from a street-cart. Contemptuous use is from Shakespeare ("2 Henry IV"), but reason is unclear.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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