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salesman

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United States

A man whose job it is to sell things, either in a shop / store or elsewhere.

noun

  1. 1

    A man whose job it is to sell things, either in a shop / store or elsewhere.

    There was an auto salesman in here yesterday that claimed you could always tell a fellow's class by the car he drove, but I says to him, 'Don't be silly,' I says; 'the wisenheimers grab a look at a fellow's nails when they want to tell if he's a tin-horn or a real gent!"'

    Would you say it was fair to describe these salesmen that were in your crews as dynamiters, or suede shoe salesmen?

Etymology

Etymology tree English sales Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English salesman From sales + -man.

Forms

plural
salesmen
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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