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costermonger (n.)
1510s, "itinerant apple-seller" from
coster
(see
costard
) +
monger
. Sense extended from "apple-seller" to any salesman who plied his wares from a street-cart. Contemptuous use is from Shakespeare ("2 Henry IV"), but reason is unclear.