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costermongery
語源
costermonger + -y
名詞
costermongery
- The fruits and vegetables sold by a costermonger.
- 1890, Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne, Arnold White, The Letters of S.G.O.:
- For my own part I have yet to learn that, in the eyes of Heaven, a grim, infidel, Sabbath and week-day dealer in costermongery is one whit a more pitiable object than a West End, wealthy idler, who fritters away life in club, turf, park, opera, and St. John's Wood—so-called pleasure—without one real, serious though upon a life to come, or one real, serious effort to do good to a single fellow-creature.
- The business of a costermonger; the process of selling frutis and vegetables from a cart or barrow.
- 1914, William Frend De Morgan, When Ghost Meets Ghost, page 134:
- In the course of these last few months of active costermongery, of transactions in early peas and new potatoes, spring-cabbage and ripe strawberries, he had acquired not only an insight into commerce but apparently an intimate knowledge of every street in London, and a very fair acquaintance with its celebrities;
形容詞
costermongery (comparative more costermongery, superlative most costermongery)
- Like a costermonger, especially rough or poor.
- 1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish Life and Character - Volume 1, page 39:
- They may not be as bold and chivalrous as the shaggy Newfoundland, as lithe and crescenty as that shivering exile the Italian greyhound, as droll and muffy as the Isle of Skye, as sturdy and sagacious as the Spanish pointer, as vivacious and hearty as the smooth terrier, or as dogged a dog as the bulldog, that most costermongery and bloodthirsty of “our four-footed favourites,” as Mr. Woodstock, the popular lecturer, would call it.
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