shoppy

English

Etymology

shop +‎ -y

Adjective

shoppy (comparative shoppier, superlative shoppiest)

1. (dated) Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon.
   • 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South:

     I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.

   • 1890, Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant:

     When golfers get together their talk is more unutterably shoppy than even that of hunters, cricketers, or racing men.

   • 1900, Macmillan's Magazine:

     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 […]

   • 1987, Carol Groneman, Mary Beth Norton, "To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at Work, 1780-1980:

     Standish had a mind that "seldom wandered from the shop and things shoppy," […]

2. (rare) Of the kind or quality expected from a shop.
   • 1898, H G Wells, The Man Who Could Work Miracles:

     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. (colloquial, dated) Abounding with shops.
   • 1872, Belgravia, volume 18, page 193:

     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 […]

Anagrams

• hyppos, spy hop, spy-hop, spyhop