counterjumper

English

Alternative forms

• counter-jumper

Etymology

counter +‎ jumper

Pronunciation

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Noun

counterjumper (plural counterjumpers)

1. (slang, derogatory, dated) A salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.
   • 1905, W. Somerset Maugham, The Merry-Go-Round, Chapter V

     [...] 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.

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 15

     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.

Translations

a salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk

• Russian: прика́зчик (ru) m (prikázčik), продаве́ц (в магази́не) m (prodavéc (v magazíne))
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• Swedish: knodd (sv) c, bodknodd c

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “counterjumper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)