saleschild

noun

Etymology

From sales + child, after salesman etc.

  1. derived from *gel-
  2. derived from *ǵelt-
  3. inherited from *kelþaz
  4. inherited from *kilþ
  5. inherited from ċild
  6. inherited from child
  7. compounded as saleschild — “sales + child

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • “That's a fifty-inch screen,” the saleschild informs Rose for the second time, shifting to his left to talk past Rafferty.
    • 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.

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