costermonger

suomi-englanti sanakirja

costermonger englannista suomeksi

  1. hedelmäkaupustelija

  1. Substantiivi

costermonger englanniksi

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

  2. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2 Q1)

  3. (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, ...

  4. (RQ:Dickens David Copperfield)

  5. 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

  6. He was an extraordinary old aristocrat, who swore like a costermonger, and had the manners of a farmer.
  7. (RQ:Conrad Lord Jim)

  8. {{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

  9. An apple-seller, usually itinerant and selling from a cart.