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saleschild en · NOUN

Etymology

From sales + child, after salesman etc.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, humorous) A child or young person who is selling something.
   • In the flicker of his judgmental gray eyes, that saleschild had transformed my brightly sentimental, joy-to-the-world, pre-Christmas spree to a shambles. 1991, Patricia J. Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights:
   • “That's a fifty-inch screen,” the saleschild informs Rose for the second time, shifting to his left to talk past Rafferty. 2014, Timothy Hallinan, For the Dead:
   • Still, be gentle with saleschildren. Odds are, this little boy didn’t take it into his own head to terrorize you with Christian M&M’s. 2015 August 29, New York Times:

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