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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
saleswoman

1704, from genitive of sale + woman.

trite

"used till so common as to have lost its novelty and interest," 1540s, from Latin tritus "worn, oft-trodden," of language "much-used, familiar, commonplace," past participle adjective from terere "to rub, wear down" (see throw (v.)). Related: Tritely; triteness.

peel out

hot-rodders' slang, 1952, perhaps from peel "blade or wash of an oar" (1875, American English), earlier "shovel-shaped instrument" (see peel (n.2). Or it might be from aircraft pilot phrase peel off "veer away from formation" (World War II), or from earlier American English slang peel it "run away at full speed" (1860).

sidebar

"secondary article accompanying a larger one in a newspaper," 1948, from side (adj.) + bar (n.1).

haggaday

mid-14c., "a kind of door latch," and said to be still the name for rings for raising thumb-latches in the north of England, appears to be what it looks like: what you say when you open the door ("have good day," as in the 1414 record of them as hafgooddays).

Usage examples of "haggaday".

Be you sorcerer or slave, beggar or baron, sophist or simpleton, prepare you to receive justice from Aufcash, Haggaday of the Hodgepoker.

What I need most is a bit of the cold air, the kind that naked Haggadays run around in.