• Thumbnail for Costermonger
    A costermonger, coster, or costard is a street seller of fruit and vegetables in British towns. The term is derived from the words costard (a medieval...
    62 KB (8,465 words) - 23:19, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hawker (trade)
    that can be easily transported; the term is roughly synonymous with costermonger or peddler. In most places where the term is used, a hawker sells inexpensive...
    30 KB (3,332 words) - 08:04, 5 September 2024
  • Wilkinson were impressed enough to form an independent record label called Costermonger with the sole purpose of promoting Gene to a wider audience. Their double...
    21 KB (2,971 words) - 06:44, 10 August 2024
  • in the group and I wanted another girl in there". The band signed to Costermonger and released 3 singles before signing to Wiiija. Complaining about their...
    8 KB (953 words) - 10:45, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for London
    peculiar slang language" (Cockney rhyming slang) when describing the costermongers of the East End. Since the start of the 21st century the extreme form...
    261 KB (23,700 words) - 11:56, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peddler
    towns and villages. In London, more specific terms were used, such as costermonger. From antiquity, peddlers filled the gaps in the formal market economy...
    35 KB (4,555 words) - 21:58, 6 July 2024
  • refers to "their use of a peculiar slang language" when describing the costermongers of London's East End. A dialectological study of Leytonstone in 1964...
    108 KB (10,363 words) - 19:27, 13 August 2024
  • lower style than the thieves. Code word (figure of speech) Code talker Costermonger Doublespeak Gibberish (language game) Jargon Lazăr Șăineanu, a Romanian...
    20 KB (2,431 words) - 22:15, 27 August 2024
  • vegetables) from two-wheeled barrows. London street traders were called costermongers (from costard, the mediaeval word for apple) and more generally barrow...
    2 KB (259 words) - 11:43, 20 April 2024
  • to: Peddler, a traveling vendor of goods a merchant dealer, such as: Costermonger, a street seller of fruit and vegetables; in Britain also general (synonym)...
    1 KB (168 words) - 16:07, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gastarbeiter
    1990: Vietnamese costermonger in Gera...
    41 KB (4,459 words) - 22:31, 30 August 2024
  • debut album by British rock band Gene, released on 20 March 1995 by Costermonger Records. It is frequently recognized as one of the crowning achievements...
    8 KB (475 words) - 22:57, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arabber
    customer around Baltimore in a coffin, as part of a living funeral. Costermonger, a street seller of fruits and vegetables Greengrocer, a shop-based seller...
    7 KB (676 words) - 08:39, 5 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Xenophobia
    African tribal chief was unquestionably superior to a white English costermonger. Use of the word "racism" became more widespread after 1936, although...
    144 KB (14,646 words) - 20:42, 29 August 2024
  • means approximately "coffee break"). Sheng (e.g. ngware becomes rengwa) Costermonger (British street vendors from whom back slang originates) Pig Latin Sullivan...
    5 KB (498 words) - 11:44, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for J. Pat O'Malley
    his many voice roles with The Walt Disney Company such as the Cockney costermonger in the "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" sequence in Mary Poppins...
    19 KB (1,413 words) - 18:19, 1 August 2024
  • an early version,[citation needed] dating from the 1820s, a Cockney costermonger vowed to be true to his fiancée, who had been sentenced to seven years'...
    17 KB (1,717 words) - 13:53, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pearly Kings and Queens
    street sweeper who collected money for charity. At the time, London costermongers (street traders) were in the habit of wearing trousers decorated at...
    6 KB (554 words) - 14:59, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for English muffin
    has been as inoperative as that which forbade the use of a drum to the costermonger, for the muffin bell still tinkles along the streets, and is rung vigorously...
    13 KB (1,268 words) - 21:55, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gooseberry
    Mitchinson, John (23 March 2009). "QI: Quite Interesting facts about costermongers". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 27 February 2009...
    14 KB (1,629 words) - 15:12, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Newsboy cap
    only by newsboys, but by dockworkers, high steel workers, shipwrights, costermongers, farmers, beggars, bandits, artisans, and tradesmen of many types. This...
    5 KB (539 words) - 03:13, 13 June 2024
  • founded the Cavendish Foods supermarket chain, though Audrey calls him a costermonger and sees him simply as a grocer. DeVere brings his domineering mother...
    42 KB (3,981 words) - 13:04, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Wind in the Willows
    Otter and Portly: a good friend of Ratty with a stereotypical "Cockney costermonger" character, Otter is confident, respected and headstrong. Portly is his...
    45 KB (5,738 words) - 01:49, 2 September 2024
  • Little Cocksparrow" 3369. "Poison Beer" 3370. "Peter Paynter" 3371. "The Costermonger's Song" 3372. "Botany Bay" 3373. "One Day as I Rambled Through Glasgow"...
    209 KB (571 words) - 08:38, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Huckster
    film starring Clark Gable as a slick Madison Avenue advertiser. Arabber Costermonger Direct sales Hawker (trade) History of marketing Market (place) Market...
    9 KB (1,155 words) - 05:37, 5 June 2024
  • family. Based on the 1986 Broadway production Bill Snibson – a cockney costermonger who inherits Lord Hareford's land and titles Sally Smith – Bill's sweetheart...
    18 KB (1,674 words) - 21:11, 21 July 2024
  • main characters. The story begins with Charlie, grandson of a barrow costermonger. When his father is killed in World War I, Charlie enlists to take his...
    7 KB (861 words) - 17:28, 29 December 2023
  • fruitcake likely originating from "nutty as a fruitcake" (a crazy person). A costermonger was a street seller of fruit and vegetables. The term, which derived...
    51 KB (5,075 words) - 22:12, 2 September 2024
  • school is as "chairman of the board of governors" and he earns money as a costermonger while the school is closed. He sets up a betting shop on the school grounds...
    3 KB (467 words) - 05:26, 31 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Portobello Road
    construction workers, domestic servants, coachmen, messengers, tradesmen and costermongers. After the Hammersmith and City Railway line was completed in 1864,...
    18 KB (1,995 words) - 08:46, 15 May 2024