Costermonger

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street. Ireland, UK

    "I cannot tell, vertue is of ſo little regard in theſe coſtar-mongers times, that true valour is turnd berod […]"

  2. 2
    a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow wordnet
  3. 3
    A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.; An applemonger, usually itinerant and selling from a cart. Ireland, UK

Etymology

From costard (“cooking apple”) + monger.

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