Meanings
plural shopgirls
- A girl who works in a shop; a young saleswoman.
'Makes no odds,' conceded George generously. 'Shopgirl—kept company with a foreigner—known as Peter. Even without anything else there ought to be no difficulty in finding her.'
1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries1 more example
Low theory takes critique gently by the neck and leads it outwards, towards the labyrinth that is the production of situations, including the production of new forms for critique itself. It is not too embarrassed to turn up as shopgirl philosophy or on delinquent mixtapes: “Our ideas are on everybody’s mind.”
2024, McKenzie Wark, Leaving The Twentieth Century: Situationist Revolutions, page 159
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*skup-
- Old Englishscoppa
- Middle Englishschoppe
- Englishshop
- Proto-West Germanic*gaurā
- Proto-West Germanic*gurilā
- Old English*gyrele?
- Middle Englishgirle
- Englishgirl
- Englishshopgirl
Translations
French midinette
- midinettea girl or young woman who works in a shop
Greek πωλήτρια
- πωλήτρια (polítria)a girl or young woman who works in a shop
Irish cailín siopa
- cailín siopaa girl or young woman who works in a shop
Portuguese vendedora, balconista
- vendedoraa girl or young woman who works in a shop
- balconistaa girl or young woman who works in a shop
Romanian vânzătoare
- vânzătoarea girl or young woman who works in a shop
Cite this entry
shopgirl. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shopgirl
“shopgirl.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shopgirl. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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