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
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."
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsYou remember the costermonger whose family quarrelled with him for marrying beneath him?
There and Back | George MacDonaldAny attempt at courtship after the style of the costermonger is resented by the whole corvine community.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas DewarBut when the Major overstrains his voice, it misses fire like a costermonger's, and only a falsetto note comes on a high register.
Somehow Good | William de Morgan
If she had been a little female costermonger she would have demanded her 'marriage lines' and clung to them fiercely.
Robin | Frances Hodgson Burnett
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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