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Coster vs Loster - What's the difference?

coster | loster |

As a noun coster

is costermonger.

As an adjective loster is

(nonstandard) (lost).

coster

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • costermonger
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] 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 harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}

    Anagrams

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    loster

    English

    Adjective

  • (nonstandard) (lost)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , title= , last=Bellow , first=Saul , authorlink=Saul Bellow , year=1975 , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=r0bFQu7Y6SIC&lpg=PA24&dq=loster%20bellow&pg=PA24
  • v=onepage&q=loster%20bellow&f=false
    • , publisher=Viking }}
    Perhaps, being lost, one should get loster ; being very late for an appointment, it might be best to walk slower, as one of my beloved Russian writers advised.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year=2006 , month=April , magazine=American Motorcyclist , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=q_UDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA41&dq=loster&pg=PA41
  • v=onepage&q=loster&f=false
    • , page=41 }}
    You can get loster , faster!
  • * {{quote-book
    • , title=Signspotting III: Lost and Loster in Translation , last=Lansky , first=Doug , year=2009 , publisher=Penguin , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=oWQ_ucH5mOQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=loster&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EYZ1UcuvFNKy0QH5g4G4Cg&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAQ , page=title }}