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
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- : 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
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- : to sell fruit, vegetables, fish, etc., from a cart, barrow, or stall in the streets.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inhawker
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.
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