saleschildとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

saleschild (複数形 saleschildren)

1. (chiefly humorous または pejorative) 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, New York Times, 29 August:

     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.