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counterjumper

noun

Etymology

From counter + jumper.

  1. derived from جُبَّة
  2. derived from jupe
  3. inherited from juype
  4. compounded as counterjumper — “counter + jumper”

Definitions

  1. A salesman in a shop

    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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA