costermonger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a street vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart, barrow, or stall

   A costermonger called out the price of apples from his barrow.

From costard, a kind of large cooking apple, + monger ("dealer, trader"). The word first meant an apple seller and broadened to a street seller of fruit and vegetables, especially one trading from a barrow.

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