costermongress

English

Noun

costermongress (plural costermongresses)

Alternative form of costermongeress
- 1861 February, “The Reconciliation”, in Mookerjee’s Magazine, volume I, number I, Calcutta, page 74:
  The educated Englishman and the educated Hindoo have a more glorious work before them than the interchange of “niggers” and “parallelograms,” like Daniel O’ Connell and the costermongress!
- 1892 June 18, Frank Yeigh, “Bread and Butter”, in Toronto Saturday Night, volume 5, number 30 (whole 238), Toronto, Ont., page 7:
  They were only a penny a pint, and the coarse big hand of the costermongress tossed a pile headlong and tail-long into a paper bag.
- 1910 December 27, “Preparing for the Fray”, in The Evening Record, volume 21, number 230, Windsor, Ont., page 4:
  The dilapidated costermongress with the worried look on her face and the “Football Evening News” in her hand, walked up to the meat-stall, and began turning over the stray pieces of meat labelled, “All choice.” “Wodjer want nah, missus?” inquired the butcher. “Piece er beef,” responded the lady. “When you was ’agglin’ for the mutton ’arf an hour ago,” objected the man of meat, “yer told me as ’ow yer couldn’t eat beef!” “No more I carn’t!” snapped the costermongress. “But I reckon I shall want a bit all the same to put on a black eye. My ’usband went ’an blacked Chelsea this mornin’, an’ I see by the piper they lorst!”
- 1926 January 3, “An Arlen Character”, in Sunday State Journal, Lincoln, Neb., two, page eight:
  Mr. Tuppy, who long has wanted to do something to live down his namesake’s inactivtion^[sic], and he was put into an arm[-]chair, where he looked like a feather boa one minute and a costermongress’ discarded hat the next.