costermonger
Also called cos·ter [kos-ter, kaw-ster] /ˈkɒs tər, ˈkɔ stər/ . a hawker of fruit, vegetables, fish, etc.
to sell fruit, vegetables, fish, etc., from a cart, barrow, or stall in the streets.
Origin of costermonger
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How to use costermonger in a sentence
People smile at him—costermongers, clerks, and shoppers—and whisper among themselves, "There goes the American admiral!"
A Traveller in War-Time | Winston ChurchillNext to factory-girls and flower-girls, costermongers talk, perhaps, the raciest "cockney."
Highways and Byways in London | Mrs. E. T. Cook.They were costermongers; their appearance was as rough as their speech.
London's Heart | B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) FarjeonWe refute this base slander by pointing to your costermongers.
The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer | Richard ClyntonElliott has rigged up two of his guns so ingeniously that they look more like costermongers' barrows than anything else.
The Mystery of Cloomber | Arthur Conan Doyle
British Dictionary definitions for costermonger
coster
/ (ˈkɒstəˌmʌŋɡə) /
British rare a person who sells fruit, vegetables, etc, from a barrow
Origin of costermonger
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