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costardmonger

costardmonger is the archaic form of costermonger.

Meaning of costermonger

Noun

costermonger (plural costermongers)

  1. (Ireland, UK) A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.
    • A costermonger's barrow is also known as a shallow.
    1. (Ireland, UK, originally) An applemonger, usually itinerant and selling from a cart.

Forms of costardmonger

pluralcostardmongers

Origin of costardmonger

From costard + monger.

Questions about costardmonger

What is costardmonger the archaic form of?
Costardmonger is the archaic form of costermonger.

Words near costardmonger in the dictionary

  1. Costantinis
  2. costapalmate
  3. costapalmately
  4. costar
  5. costard
  6. costardmonger
  7. costardmongers
  8. costards
  9. costarred
  10. costarring
  11. costars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: costardmonger (page history and authors); costermonger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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