costermonger
Example Sentences
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“You’re looking especially lovely today, sweetheart,” shouts James Corden’s importunate costermonger from his market stall during The Lady in the Van.
From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2015
"My granddad was a local costermonger," she says.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2012
For all the royalty and high fashion, the day, as always, belonged to the cockney, the costermonger and the gypsy, swarming over the infield.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“And then he’ll rail like a rude costermonger, That schoolboys had cozened of his apple, As loud and senseless.”
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles
The bull-dog tenacity permeated all classes; it was shared by the peer, the country squire, the small farmer, the tradesman and the artizan; it was voiced by the Prime Minister, and echoed by the costermonger.
From A Cabinet Secret by Boothby, Guy Newell