Miscellaneous second-hand stuff. Hence junk-dealer, junk-shop, &c.
1842. Champagne was charged for under the head of “old junk.”—Mr. Proffit of Indiana, House of Repr., Feb. 23: Cong. Globe, p. 261.
1848. Trash that wouldn’t fetch two cents in the market of heaven, and but a trifle more in the junk-shops of hell.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ i. 256.
1851. The all receiving shop of some dealer in old junk.—Yale Tomahawk, Feb.
1882. The marine store, or “junk” dealer, as he is styled in New York.—G. A. Sala, ‘America Revisited,’ i. 82. (N.E.D.)
1884. The sweepings of a city, bones, junk,—a collection of pestilence-breeding filth.—Pall Mall Gazette, Aug. 6. (N.E.D.)
1888. “A Junk-store rifled.”—Heading, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, March 10 (Farmer).
1895. What the sheriff could get for the goods sold in a lump for cash in hand, with possibly only a junkman for bidder.—N. O. Nelson, ‘Single-Tax Morals,’ The Outlook, N.Y., Aug. 24, p. 304/2. (N.E.D.)
