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DEFINITION: n. An overbearing or pushy salesperson who makes you want to leave a store rather than look around and buy something. v. To aggressively sell something to someone who doesn't want it.
Verboticisms
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Keendean
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: keen-deen
Sentence: OMG, he was such a keendean that I legged it out the shop as soon as he turned his back. Keendeans are such a pain in the arse. They make me uncomfortable.
Etymology: Keen - eager, enthusiastic Dean - male name
Impeddler
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: imm-PED-lur
Sentence: The impeddler was so obnoxious that I stormed out of the shop, accidentally breaking some cheap plastic products on my way out.
Etymology: impede (to obstruct or hinder) + peddler (a travelling seller of goods)
Samplassault
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: sam-pull-ass-alt
Sentence: She left the store rather than be subjected to samplassault again.
Etymology: sample - small portion of item assault - attempt to force a person
Sirenade
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sīrəˈnād
Sentence: Melody is a wonderful salesperson. Even her detractors have to admit she is hard to resist. Once she starts her sirenade, the sale is all but final. The first verse usually starts with **How may I help You Today?** The final chorus... **Come see us again**. Her song can be soothing, flirting, or annoying but always unrelenting. Anyone who wanders too close buys something. A customer once tried to return an ugly green sweater and returned home with two sweaters, one blue and one yellow. **Blue and yellow make green** made sense when Melody said it.
Etymology: siren (Greek Mythology each of a number of women or winged creatures whose singing lured unwary sailors onto rocks) + serenade (a piece of music sung or played in the open air, typically by a man at night under the window of his lover)
Fleemarket
Created by: iwasatripwire
Pronunciation: flee-mar-ket
Sentence: The clerks in that boutique always turn it into such a fleemarket
Etymology: flee + flea market
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COMMENTS:
I like this one - guess that makes them fleemarketers - petaj, 2007-05-16: 23:10:00
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Offenseller
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /əˈfɛnˈsɛlɚ/
Sentence: Sadly, for every person who is pushed out of the store by an offenseller, there are two more who are convinced to buy something that they wouldn't have otherwise.
Etymology: From offensive + seller
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COMMENTS:
I voted already, but I like this one. An offenseller seems like an instoramus. - Clayton, 2007-05-16: 19:55:00
Thanks. I seem to get that a lot if I decide to go to bed before 1 or 2am and end up making up my words the next morning. - ErWenn, 2007-05-16: 22:38:00
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Mischanthrope
Created by: zrotv
Pronunciation: mĭs'chən-thrōp
Sentence: bobby did want to offend the customers. But whenever he saw people casually perusing he was filled with a mischanthropic urge to demonstrate his favorite products. Mischanthropy was the only sales tactic he was capable of, blathering and rambling a high pressure sales at every opportunity. Sometimes he would try to avoid customers who looked as though they did not need assistance, but he could rarely contain his urge to wave strawberries in their faces. He was a true mischanthrope.
Etymology: mis (bad) + merchant (latin: mercari "to trade") + thrope (Latin: anthropos "man." as in misanthrope)
Harasshat
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: huh-RAS-hat
Sentence: As she made her way to the front of the bookstore, Gilda was cornered by resident harasshat Caleb, who wasted at least five minutes of her day calmly reassuring her that he'd been reading Baudrillard.
Etymology: harass + asshat
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COMMENTS:
love it love it love it - iwasatripwire, 2007-05-16: 12:37:00
I really need to start using this one, because I seem to run into a few each day. - Clayton, 2007-05-16: 14:49:00
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Rackwhore
Created by: yaknowmay
Pronunciation: rack-whore
Sentence: the rack whore in MACYS, did everything but drop to her knees, trying to get that sales commision
Etymology:
Salesdouche
Created by: Paulefinch
Pronunciation: sails-doosh'
Sentence: I was going to buy a few new cds, but the salesdouche just made me want to leave.
Etymology: salesman+douchebag
Comments:
Verbotomy - 2007-05-16: 03:36:00
Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire! ~ James
Verbotomy - 2009-12-01: 00:16:00
Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire. ~ James