coster

Clipping of costermonger.

Noun

  1. Clipping of costermonger.
    • It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated...
  2. A costard: a large apple good for cooking; any apple.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Acraea.

Forms

costers

Derived

costerdom tawny coster