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COSTERMONGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does costermonger mean? 

COSTERMONGER (noun)
  The noun COSTERMONGER has 1 sense:

1. a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrowplay

  Familiarity information: COSTERMONGER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COSTERMONGER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

barrow-boy; barrow-man; costermonger

Hypernyms ("costermonger" is a kind of...):

bargainer; dealer; monger; trader (someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold)


 Context examples 


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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Who, as he saw Sheridan and Fox eagerly arguing as to whether Caleb Baldwin, the Westminster costermonger, could hold his own with Isaac Bittoon, the Jew, would have guessed that the one was the deepest political philosopher in Europe, and that the other would be remembered as the author of the wittiest comedy and of the finest speech of his generation?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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