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costermonger

/kos-ter-muhng-ger, -mong-, kaw-ster-/US // ˈkɒs tərˌmʌŋ gər, -ˌmɒŋ-, ˈkɔ stər- //UK // (ˈkɒstəˌmʌŋɡə) //

造价师,成本贩子,造价员,造价商

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called cos·ter [kos-ter, kaw-ster] /ˈkɒs tər, ˈkɔ stər/ . a hawker of fruit, vegetables, fish, etc.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to sell fruit, vegetables, fish, etc., from a cart, barrow, or stall in the streets.

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Examples

  • But they keep peddling them like a costermonger selling rotten fruit.

  • With horror she had heard her brother addressed by a disreputable costermonger in a mangy fur cap, as "Old pal."

  • You remember the costermonger whose family quarrelled with him for marrying beneath him?

  • Any attempt at courtship after the style of the costermonger is resented by the whole corvine community.

  • But when the Major overstrains his voice, it misses fire like a costermonger's, and only a falsetto note comes on a high register.

  • If she had been a little female costermonger she would have demanded her 'marriage lines' and clung to them fiercely.