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Definition of Shoppy
1. a. Abounding with shops.
Definition of Shoppy
1. Adjective. (dated) Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon. ¹
2. Adjective. (rare) Of the kind or quality expected from a shop. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shoppy
1. commercial [adj SHOPPIER, SHOPPIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoppy
Literary usage of Shoppy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boy's Yearly Book by John Tillotson (1867)
"I know he tries to bounce foung shoppy with the difference between a ...
shoppy professes to glory in the shop ; but be does not : he winces at every joke, ..."
2. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"In top-row there may be a shoppy allusion to articles of superior excellence that
are ... "shoppy" phrases notoriously play an important part in modern ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1900)
"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 but ..."
4. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"When golfers get together their talk is more unutterably shoppy than even that
of hunters, cricketers, or racing men.— Daily Telegraph. ..."
5. History of Pembroke, N. H.: 1730-1895 by Nathan Franklin Carter, Trueworthy Ladd Fowler (1895)
"1850, Elsie shoppy, dau. of Adrian anil Fanny W. (shoppy) Abbott; res. Pembroke.
She was b. 19 Mar. ..."
6. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"shoppy, belonging to trade. ... we don't visit them ; I don't like shoppy people.
— Mrs. Gaskell, Rorth a¡-d South, ch. ¡i. SHORE, sewer. ..."
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