different between seller vs junkman

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?l?/ enPR: s?l-?r
• Rhymes: -?l?(r)
• Homophone: cellar

Etymology 1

From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell +? -er. Cognate with Danish sælger, Swedish säljare, Icelandic seljari (“a seller; dealer”).

Noun

seller (plural sellers)

1. Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.

   Alisha was a seller of fine books.

2. Something which sells.

   Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

seller (plural sellers)

1. Obsolete spelling of cellar

Anagrams

• Ellers, ellers, resell

Estonian

Noun

seller (genitive selleri, partitive sellerit)

1. celery

Declension

French

Etymology

selle +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.le/, /se.le/
• Homophone: sceller

Verb

seller

1. to saddle

Conjugation

Related terms

• selle
• desseller

Further reading

• “seller” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

selle (“saddle”) +? -er

Verb

seller

1. (Jersey) to saddle

Related terms

• sell'lie f (“saddlery”)
• sellyi m (“saddler”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

seller

1. indefinite plural of selle m or f
2. indefinite plural of selle m

Etymology 2

Noun

seller m

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selger

Verb

seller

1. present tense of selle (non-standard since 1981)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

seller f

1. indefinite plural of selle

Pennsylvania German

Determiner

seller

1. inflection of sell:
   1. masculine nominative/accusative singular
   2. feminine dative singular

English

Etymology

junk +? man

Noun

junkman (plural junkmen)

1. A seller of junk.
   • 1966, Bernard Malamud, The Fixer, Chapter 2,

     He was leaving behind his few ruined sticks of furniture—a junkman had wanted to be paid to take them—and two sets of cracked dishes, also unsaleable, that Shmuel could do with whatever he wanted—use, ax, or fire—they were worth nothing.

Translations

See also

• scrap dealer