A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fruitmonger, fruitseller, fruiterer, coster
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: huckster, hawker, peddler, pedlar, vendor, seller, person
A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.
An applemonger, usually itinerant and selling from a cart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK
Qualifier: originally
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fruitmonger, fruitseller, fruiterer, coster
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: huckster, hawker, peddler, pedlar, vendor, seller, person
a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: barrow-man, barrow-boy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: trader, bargainer, dealer, monger
