costermonger

n. 水果,鱼叫卖小贩

词形变化

costermongers 复数 costermongers

别名

coster costardmonger coster-monger

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.

    爱尔兰 英国

    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.

  2. 2.

    A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.

    An applemonger, usually itinerant and selling from a cart.

    爱尔兰 英国

词汇关系

名词

上位词 4

dealer trader monger bargainer

下位词 2

barrow boy barrow man

词源

From costard (“cooking apple”) + monger.

来源：wiktionary