counterjumper en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
From counter + jumper.
Meanings
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(dated, derogatory, slang) A salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.
[...] and the chastest women thought it no shame for their pictures to be exposed in every stationer's shop or to decorate the chimney-piece of a platonic counter-jumper.
1905, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter V, in The Merry-Go-Round:Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 15”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| counter-jumper | alternative | lexicographic | |
| counterjumpers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (6)
ru продаве́ц (a salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk) · ru прика́зчик (a salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk) · pl sklepikarka (a salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk) · sv bodknodd (a salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk) · pl sklepikarz (a salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk) · sv knodd (a salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk)