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

"Why go along and mind your business," replied his worship—and the master costermonger retired from court without having taken anything by his motion.

From Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' by Wight, John

“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