shoppy
adjEtymology From shop + -y.
1
Dated Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon.
- I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South:
- When golfers get together their talk is more unutterably shoppy than even that of hunters, cricketers, or racing men.1890, Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant:
2 more examples
- A novel of clerical life written by a clergyman is apt to be what is vulgarly called shoppy, to dwell upon details which may interest other clergymen […]1900, Macmillan's Magazine:
- Standish had a mind that "seldom wandered from the shop and things shoppy," […]1987, Carol Groneman, Mary Beth Norton, "To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at Work, 1780-1980:
2
Rare Of the kind or quality expected from a shop.
- 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.1898, H G Wells, The Man Who Could Work Miracles:
3
Colloquial, Dated Abounding with shops.
- 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 […]1872, Belgravia, volume 18, page 193:
- Derived terms
- shoppily, shoppiness, shoppy shop