shopgirl
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A girl who works in a shop; a young saleswoman.
Example Sentences
- "'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.'"
- "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.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skup- Old English scoppa Middle English schoppe English shop Proto-West Germanic *gaurā Proto-West Germanic *-ilā Proto-West Germanic *gurilā Old English *gyrele? Middle English girle English girl English shopgirl From shop + girl.