Definition of Slopseller

1. Noun. A dealer in cheap ready-made clothing.


Definition of Slopseller

1. n. One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3.

Definition of Slopseller

1. Noun. (dated) One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slopseller

slopingness
slopings
slopped
sloppier
sloppiest
sloppily
sloppiness
sloppinesses
slopping
slopping out
sloppy
sloppy joe
sloppy joes
slopseller (current term)
slopseller's shop
slopsellers
slopshop
slopshops
slopwork
slopworks
slopy
slore
slores
slosh
slosh around
sloshed
sloshes
sloshier

Literary usage of Slopseller

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1828)
"Jack himself throws a dash of the ridiculous into the business; he checkers with individual whim the else unrelieved baseness of the slopseller. ..."

2. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, Richard Neville-Griffin Braybrooke (1899)
"The other was Captain Beckford, the slopseller, who appears to have been the same man as Alderman Thomas Beckford, Sheriff of London, 1677, who was knighted ..."

3. A Practical Guide to the Quarter Sessions and Other Sessions of the Peace by William Dickinson (1820)
"... in the parish of Minster,;: the county of Kent, slopseller, Aaron M., ... of the same place, slopseller, f' me the said justice to understand and be ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Princpal and Surety by Edward Dix Pitman (1840)
"Temple was as follows : — The plaintiff was a tailor and slopseller at Portsmouth, and the defendant the first lieutenant of HMS The Boyne. ..."

5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"There never was so meek, so picturesque a slopseller. Behold him with imperturbable tranquillity surrounded by a crowd of sailors, every man exhibiting a ..."

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