costermonger
costermonger noun: a vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.
Noun
costermonger (plural costermongers)
- 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.
- I cannot tell, vertue is of ſo little regard in theſe coſtar-mongers times, that true valour is turnd berod […]c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600...
- Synonyms:
- fruitmonger, fruitseller, fruiterer, coster
- An applemonger, usually itinerant and selling from a cart.
costermonger meaning in Tamil
costermonger in Tamil
- காய்கனி விற்பனையாளர்
Examples of costermonger in a sentence
- 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.1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 23, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […]...
- 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.1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XIII, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published...
- 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!1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 212:
Synonyms of costermonger
Forms of costermonger
| plural | costermongers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | costardmonger |
| alternative form | coster-monger |
Origin of costermonger
From costard (“cooking apple”) + monger.
Words formed from costermonger
Questions about costermonger
- What does costermonger mean?
- Costermonger means a vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.
- What is costermonger in Tamil?
- Costermonger in Tamil is காய்கனி விற்பனையாளர். See Costermonger meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use costermonger in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is costermonger?
- Costermonger is a noun.
- What is the plural of costermonger?
- The plural of costermonger is costermongers.
Words near costermonger in the dictionary
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