costermongerEtymologyFrom costard (“cooking apple”) + monger.nounA vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.“I cannot tell, vertue is of ſo little regard in theſe coſtar-mongers times, that true valour is turnd berod […]”A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.; An applemonger, usually itinerant and selling from a cart.