Meanings
plural counterjumpers · alternative counter-jumper
- datedderogatoryslangA salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.
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.
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 15”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC1 more example
[...] 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.
1905, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter V, in The Merry-Go-RoundSynonyms: sales clerk
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.
Origin
Translations
Polish sklepikarz, sklepikarka
- sklepikarza salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk
- sklepikarkaa salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk
Russian прика́зчик, продаве́ц
- прика́зчик (prikázčik)a salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk
- продаве́цa salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk
Swedish knodd, bodknodd
- knodda salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk
- bodknodda salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk
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counterjumper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterjumper
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