shopgirl

[ shop-gurl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1760–70; shop + girl

“Shopgirl” and “NY152” could teach online dating a lesson or two.

Maggie's dress was just the ordinary shirt-waist and skirt that the shopgirl and her sisters wear; Hunt had ordered it so.

The enthusiasms of the American shopgirl, I take it, are very much the same as those of her English sister.

The shopgirl made a little bow and the silvery bell jangled again as Betty opened the door.

Something clung to it now as she drew it forth, but neither Betty nor the shopgirl saw the dangling twist of tissue paper.

It was Bobby whom Betty wanted to have the blue blouse just as soon as the shopgirl finished it.

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