单词 | coster-wife |
释义 | coster-wifen. Now historical and rare. A woman who sells apples (and other fruit, vegetables, fish, etc.) from a stall; a female costermonger. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fruit > woman fruitesterc1386 apple-wife1599 apple-woman1607 fruit-wife1611 orange wifea1616 orange-woman1616 coster-wife1661 orange-wench1665 orange-miss1694 fruiteress1713 fruit-girl1750 orange girl1764 fruit-woman1849 costeress1869 1661 K. W. Confused Characters 95 You'd take him for some bearded London Coster-wife newly drest up on a munday morning. 1864 London Jrnl. 19 Nov. 328/2 Unwilling to speak to any of the coster wives.., he entered an ale-house. 1985 J. R. Gillis For Better, for Worse vii. 204 Once children had begun to arrive, the woman's place was more confined to the home, a dependence which many coster wives, used to trading on their own, clearly resented. 2012 R. Barber Marlowe Papers 29 Can hear her in my ears like old advice: The racket of carts, The Coster-wife. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1661 |
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