Costermonger [noun]
Definition of Costermonger:
peddler
Synonyms of Costermonger:
Opposite/Antonyms of Costermonger:
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Sentence/Example of Costermonger:
With horror she had heard her brother addressed by a disreputable costermonger in a mangy fur cap, as "Old pal."
You remember the costermonger whose family quarrelled with him for marrying beneath him?
Any attempt at courtship after the style of the costermonger is resented by the whole corvine community.
But when the Major overstrains his voice, it misses fire like a costermonger's, and only a falsetto note comes on a high register.
If she had been a little female costermonger she would have demanded her 'marriage lines' and clung to them fiercely.
She heard the costermonger say, as he took his pipe out of his mouth.
"He was a good man and a proper gentleman," said a burly costermonger.
Indeed his attire was more like that of a bankrupt costermonger than of a man of letters.
In one of our wards we harboured, for a while, a costermonger.
Make your wants known at all the street-corners, and perhaps some costermonger will lend you a copy.