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ˈcounter-jumper colloq.
[f. counter n.3 + jumper.]
lit. One who jumps over a counter: applied in contempt to a shopman or shopkeeper's assistant.
1829J. Mactaggart 3 Yrs. Canada I. 242 In the conceited towns he is held in abhorrence by the clerk and counter-jumper. 1841Warren Ten Thous. a Year I. i. 3 They..know that I'm only a tallow-faced counter-jumper. 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am xx, I don't want to see my daughter spinning round a public assembly room in the arms of any counterjumper. 1915W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xvi. 65 Mr Gordon used to call me a gipsy counter-jumper when I was in his form. 1959J. Braine Vodi xxiii. 248 You'll not waste your time with bloody consumptive counter-jumpers!
So ˈcounter-jumping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole xl. (1879) 345 What right has he to call me a counter-jumping snob? 1875Hamerton Intell. Life viii. i. 279 Aesthetic beauty, or grandeur compatible with counter-jumping. |