Costermonger

Quick meaning: Costermonger is a noun meaning (UK, Ireland) A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.

Meaning

(UK, Ireland) A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.

Example Sentences

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He had loved too well to imagine himself a glorious racehorse, and now he was condemned to toil without honour like a costermonger’s donkey.

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.

In more recent times it is recorded that among the London costermongers of the Victorian age a common oath, probably misunderstood or not understood at all, was, So help me testes!

Word Forms

• costermongers
• costardmonger
• coster-monger

Synonyms for costermonger

Depending on context, synonyms include fruitmonger, fruitseller, fruiterer, coster.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coster-monger, costardmonger, costermongeress, cornmonger, costermongress, boroughmongery.

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