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costermonger

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12 lettersPart of speech nounSorted ceegmnoorrstStarts with CEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow

Word origin

From costard (“cooking apple”) + monger.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 1889, Oscar Wilde, “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” Chapter 1, in Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories, He was an extraordinary old aristocrat, who swore like a costermonger, and had the manners of a farmer.

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