costermonger

noun

1. (Ireland, UK)A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.

   “I cannot tell, vertue is of ſo little regard in theſe coſtar-mongers times, that true valour is turnd berod […]”

   “We arrived at Lincoln’s Inn Fields without any new adventures, except encountering an unlucky donkey in a costermonger’s cart, who suggested painful associations to my aunt.”

   “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.”

   “He had loved too well to imagine himself a glorious racehorse, and now he was condemned to toil without honour like a costermonger’s donkey.”

2. (Ireland, UK)A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.