Shoppy
adj, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon. dated
"I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence."
- 2 Of the kind or quality expected from a shop. rare
"For instance, he had three eggs for breakfast; two his landlady had supplied, good, but shoppy, and one was a delicious fresh goose-egg, laid, cooked, and served by his extraordinary will."
- 3 Abounding with shops. colloquial, dated
"Big omnibuses, with horses three abreast, came leisurely along, crowded outside and in exclusively with males, all on business bent. Right before me was Market-street—a grimy shoppy street […]"
Example
More examples"I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence."
Etymology
From shop + -y.
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