saleschild
English edit
Etymology edit
From sales + child, after salesman etc.
Noun edit
saleschild (plural saleschildren)
- (chiefly humorous or derogatory) A child or young person who is selling something.
- 1991, Patricia J. Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights:
- 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.
- 2014, Timothy Hallinan, For the Dead:
- “That's a fifty-inch screen,” the saleschild informs Rose for the second time, shifting to his left to talk past Rafferty.
- 2015 August 29, New York Times:
- 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.