coster
noun1
Abbreviation, Clipping Clipping of costermonger.
- It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
2
Obsolete A costard: a large apple good for cooking; any apple.
3
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Acraea.
- Derived terms
- costerdom, tawny coster