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costermonger
noun 2
Collocations
3VERB + COSTERMONGER
know
COSTERMONGER + NOUN
cart, costard, s
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.
I cannot tell, vertue is of ſo little regard in theſe coſtar-mongers times, that true valour is turnd berod […]
The Saint Monday Gemmen held their diversions on the 18th, near Clay-hill, which consisted of a pugilistic exhibition between G. Wilkie, a coster-monger, and Jeffery Smith, a professor, but little calculated to astonish the spectators at his professional skill. The battle was for ten guineas; and, after a contest of about forty minutes, in which the combatants were decently feaked, and the head of Jeffery was a good deal disfigured, he resigned the contest, and the coster-monger was carried to Westminster in triumph, [...]
2
A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow
- barrow-man
- barrow-boy
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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I cannot tell, vertue is of ſo little regard in theſe coſtar-mongers times, that true valour is turnd berod […]
Wiktionary02
The Saint Monday Gemmen held their diversions on the 18th, near Clay-hill, which consisted of a pugilistic exhibition between G. Wilkie, a coster-monger, and Jeffery Smith, a professor, but little cal
Wiktionary03
We arrived at Lincoln’s Inn Fields without any new adventures, except encountering an unlucky donkey in a costermonger’s cart, who suggested painful associations to my aunt.
Wiktionary04
Coster, costermonger, or costard is a street seller of fruit and vegetables, in London and other British towns.
Tatoeba · #783835505
It would be interesting to know how a costermonger could have made all that money by the sale of apples, oranges, and greens.
Tatoeba · #12161029Usage Notes
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