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▪ I. shoppy, a.|ˈʃɒpɪ|
[f. shop n. + -y1.]
1. Of the nature of ‘shop’ or professional concerns or conversation.
1840Haliburton Letter Bag i. 4 Still my attention was riveted (I fear that word is shoppy). 1900Macm. Mag. Jan. 222 A novel of clerical life written by a clergyman is apt to be what is vulgarly called shoppy.
2. Characterized by having a number of shops, forming a centre for business.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 292/1 Thoroughfares which are well-frequented, but which..are not so ‘shoppy’ as others. 1892Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Oct. 1/2 The innumerable shades of colour in all the drapers' windows make the ‘shoppy’ part of town more fascinating than usual.
3. Belonging to retail trade.
1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. ii, I don't like shoppy people. 1890Hatton By order of Czar (1891) 388 Critics in the press..who characterize both his manner and his work [paintings] as commercial and shoppy. 1914W. Owen Let. 10 May (1967) 249 Miss H― who, you confess, is ‘shoppy’. Now that is distressing. The fact of being employed in a shop does not matter; but shoppiness does matter.
▪ II. shoppy, n. slang.|ˈʃɒpɪ|
Also shoppie.
[f. shop n. + -y6.]
A shop assistant.
1909P. Webling Story of Virginia Perfect i. 6 Her manner towards him..had none of the affectation of the ordinary ‘young lady in business’, or the vulgar intimacy of a poorer class of ‘shoppie’. 1916‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin vii. 114 She's in Skeets the draper's... Never could stand them shoppies; they give themselves such airs. 1934H. A. Vachell Disappearance of Martha Penny i. 20 Her sparkling eyes, her fine figure, were gifts rarely bestowed upon urban ‘shoppies’. |