Dictionary

shopgirl en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skup- Old English scoppa Middle English schoppe English shop Proto-West Germanic *gaurā Proto-West Germanic *-ilā Proto-West Germanic *gurilā Old English *gyrele? Middle English girle English girl English shopgirl From shop + girl.

Meanings

1. A girl who works in a shop; a young saleswoman.
   • 'Makes no odds,' conceded George generously. 'Shopgirl—kept company with a foreigner—known as Peter. Even without anything else there ought to be no difficulty in finding her.' 1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
   • Low theory takes critique gently by the neck and leads it outwards, towards the labyrinth that is the production of situations, including the production of new forms for critique itself. It is not too embarrassed to turn up as shopgirl philosophy or on delinquent mixtapes: “Our ideas are on everybody’s mind.” 2024, McKenzie Wark, Leaving The Twentieth Century: Situationist Revolutions, page 159:

Forms

Coordinates

shopboy

Deriveds

shopgirlish

Translations (6)

ga cailín siopa (a girl or young woman who works in a shop) · fr midinette (a girl or young woman who works in a shop) · pt balconista (a girl or young woman who works in a shop) · ro vânzătoare (a girl or young woman who works in a shop) · pt vendedora (a girl or young woman who works in a shop) · el πωλήτρια (a girl or young woman who works in a shop)