Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A girl who performs the same duties as a cash-boy.

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Examples

  • This was sad news to Nan, for she loved the little cash-girl, and hoped to see her and perhaps have her pay a visit to Aunt Sarah's.

    The Bobbsey Twins in the Country Laura Lee Hope

  • "This is the best fun I've had!" declared the little cash-girl, allowing how grateful she was.

    The Bobbsey Twins in the Country Laura Lee Hope

  • "I'm a cash-girl in a big store," said Nellie with some pride, for many little girls are not smart enough to hold such a position.

    The Bobbsey Twins in the Country Laura Lee Hope

  • Some of the girls who knew Nan came up now and told her how Nellie, the little cash-girl, had been taken sick and had had to be removed to the hospital tent over in the other mountain.

    The Bobbsey Twins in the Country Laura Lee Hope

  • There was a motor car, a bottle of whisky, and for him a grubby shrieking cash-girl from Parcher and Stein’s.

    Chapter 29 1922

  • There was a motor car, a bottle of whisky, and for him a grubby shrieking cash-girl from Parcher and Stein's.

    Babbitt 1922

  • Your fourteen-year-old girl is working as a cash-girl in a store and your fifteen-year-old boy is working in

    The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg John Spargo 1921

  • And now I am in an office -- all the fellows are dandy and polite -- not like the floor superintendent where I worked in a department store; he would call down a cash-girl for making change slow --!

    The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • I been shifting for myself ever since I was cash-girl down at Tracy's, and I ain't going to begin being bossed now.

    The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • He got rid of his cash-girl, and put Daisy in her place; and this in face of the fact that Daisy had had the scantiest practice with figures and was at first dismally slow in the making of change.

    It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

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