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costermonger

noun

Etymology

From costard (“cooking apple”) + monger.

  1. derived from *(s)meh₂-✻ — “to beckon, signal”
  2. derived from *manicō✻
  3. derived from ن ج ل
  4. derived from μαγγανεύω — “to use charms or philtres; to cheat, play tricks; to dress food artificially to make it appear better”
  5. derived from *-ārī✻
  6. derived from mangō — “dealer, trader”
  7. inherited from *mangārī✻ — “dealer, merchant, monger”
  8. inherited from mangere — “dealer, merchant, trader”
  9. inherited from mongere
  10. compounded as costermonger — “costard + monger”

Definitions

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

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

The neighborhood

Derived

coster, costermongeress, costermongering, costermongerish, costermongerly, costermongery

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA