Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
costermonger . - noun Eccles., the side hangings of an altar.
- noun A piece of tapestry or carpeting used as a small hanging, as the valance of a bed, the hanging border of a tablecloth, and the like.
- noun Also called
costering .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.
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- noun A
costermonger
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Examples
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So a coster is twice as likely to lose his reason as a soldier, and five times as likely as a farmer.
SUICIDE 2010
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So a coster is twice as likely to lose his reason as a soldier, and five times as likely as
Suicide 1903
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"coster" -- "drawing him," while Horace Mayhew took down everything the man said.
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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I feel as if my life and my eternal happiness depend upon my emulating a wild Indian, or a London 'coster' boy.
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Another star of the halls, Albert Chevalier, sang "coster" songs, inaugurating the "pearly king" costume that would become a London staple, warbling: "Knock 'em in the Old Kent Road."
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We fought a lot, and while the emotional roller coster was sometimes exhilarating, it had grown tiresome.
How many clues does one need to give an overly sexy dresser? 2011
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She smiled into the Virgin's eyes, and that lady delivered herself of a coster ballad with more art than she was aware.
CHAPTER 20 2010
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When it was over, and Mugridge was back in the galley, he became greasily radiant, and went about his work, humming coster songs in a nerve-racking and discordant falsetto.
Chapter 6 2010
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(Whatever they're up to, they'll probably try to do the same for whatever the revamped moon program is, so need to pay attention - seems to be a big coster with high potential for bigtime overruns).
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I enjoyed it the first time as a pure emotional roller-coster ride, now I enjoy it as movie about something “more” then that - as a movie that actually has something to say about the medium and the genre itself, instead of just offering us an hour and a half of suspense.
yarb commented on the word coster
What is monged by a costermonger.
May 17, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word coster
Also, someone who attacks his parents.
August 20, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word coster
The OED also gives (as obsolete): 'A hanging for a bed, the walls of a room, etc.'
September 25, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word coster
When the coster's finished jumping on his mother,
He loves to lie a-basking in the sun.
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911), Pirates of Penzance
September 20, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word coster
Scots. A piece of arable land.
May 10, 2011