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coster-monger

coster-monger is the alternative 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 coster-monger

pluralcoster-mongers

Questions about coster-monger

What is coster-monger the alternative form of?
Coster-monger is the alternative form of costermonger.

Words near coster-monger in the dictionary

  1. Costellos
  2. costen
  3. Costen's syndrome
  4. costening
  5. coster
  6. coster-monger
  7. coster-mongers
  8. costerdom
  9. Costerfield
  10. costermonger
  11. costermongeress

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coster-monger (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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