costermonger
suomi-englanti sanakirjacostermonger englannista suomeksi
hedelmäkaupustelija
Substantiivi
costermonger englanniksi
A trader who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2 Q1)
(quote-journal) ''Saint Monday Gemmen'' held their diversions on the 18th, near Clay-hill, which consisted of a pugilistic exhibition between G. Wilkie, a coster-monger, and Jeffery Smith, a professor, but little calculated to astonish the spectators at his professional skill. The battle was for ten guineas; and, after a contest of about forty minutes, in which the combatants were decently feaked, and the head of Jeffery was a good deal disfigured, he resigned the contest, and the coster-monger was carried to Westminster in triumph, ...
(RQ:Dickens David Copperfield)
1889, (w), “(w)” Chapter 1, in ''Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories|Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories'',http://www.gutenberg.org/files/773/773-h/773-h.htm
- He was an extraordinary old aristocrat, who swore like a costermonger, and had the manners of a farmer.
(RQ:Conrad Lord Jim)
{{quote-book|en|year=1913|author=Ford Madox Ford|title=Mr. Fleight|location=London|publisher=Howard Latimer|chapter=7|page=93|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000390158