† coster-wifeObs. [f. costard apple + wife: cf. costermonger.] A woman that keeps a stall for the sale of apples, and the like, an ‘apple-wife’. 1661K. W. Conf. Charact., Univ. Beadle (1860) 72 You'd take him for some bearded London coster-wife newly drest up on a munday morning.