shopkeepern.

Brit.

/ˈʃɒpˌkiːpə/, U.S.

/ˈʃɑpˌkipər/

Forms: see shop n. and keeper n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: shop n., keeper n.

Etymology: < shop n. + keeper n., after to keep shop at shop n., adj., and int. Phrases 4.

1. A person who carries on business in a shop.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > shopkeeper

merchantc1400

shopholder1443

shopkeeper1530

shopman1572

storekeeper1741

box wallah1826

winkler1853

storeman1858

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 267/1 Schoppe kepar.

1589 P. Ive tr. R. Beccarie de Pavie Instr. Warres ii. vii. 189 In the east streate, the shop-keepers, tailers, hosiers, and shomakers.

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes i. iii. 44 in Wks. II I say 'tis nobly done, to cherish Shop-keepers, And pay their Bills, without examining thus.

1688 Edinb. Test. LXXVIII. 26 May in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Chop-keiper Violet Camerone, choapkeiper.

1738 Gentleman's Mag. May 239/2 What are Lawyers without Clients, Shop-keepers without Customers?

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 376 A shopkeeper will never thrive who despises small profits.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xvii. 274 Mr. Bumble stopped not to converse with the small shop-keepers and others who spoke to him deferentially as he passed along.

1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxi. 293 Marco the son of Marco was haggling with a shopkeeper over a quarter of a pound of salt.

1924 M. Arlen Green Hat v. 152 The shop-keepers are very polite, and courteously do not mind how many you buy.

1976 R. Barnard Little Local Murder ix. 106 'Aven't you 'eard 'ow difficult things are for the small shopkeeper?

2010 Observer (Nexis) 26 Dec. 2 Shouts of ‘welcome, welcome’ ring out as she passes shopkeepers standing in the doors of their stores.

†2. slang. An item that has remained unsold for a long time. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > which is easily sold > esp. remaining in the shop unsold

shopkeepera1657

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cccviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 178 Blunt Reason, as an vseless Toole they give; Old Shopkeeper, with rusted Conscience!

1726 H. Wanley Diary 21 Apr. (1966) II. 413 Most of them that remain, are either common books, old Shop-keepers, or Rubbish.

1764 T. Legg Low-life (ed. 3) 76 Petty Booksellers..looking out their imperfect and antient Shopkeepers, that they may expose them to Sale.

1842 New Monthly Mag. July 365 What lots of old shopkeepers would find their way from the glass cases of their weary owners into those of the treasury!

1869 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 94/2 Mr. Murray, the dealer, had three in this class. Warrior, a good-looking bay with big limbs; Holyrood, a powerful made chesnut; and Kilkenny, also a chesnut, and an old shopkeeper that we remember seeing shown here in 1867.

Phrases

a nation of shopkeepers: a nation whose chief interest and concern lies in commerce; spec. England, the English.Cf. quots. 1766, 1769 at shopkeeping adj. [In the disparaging use with reference to England or the English, probably after French nation boutiquière (1794 or earlier). Although such use is often attributed to Napoleon (compare quot. 1822, which is taken from Napoleon's conversations, conducted in Italian, with his personal physician in exile), it does not appear to have originated with him.]

ΚΠ

1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. X. 508 It has been thought no bad description of the Japonese to stile them a nation of shopkeepers.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. vii. 221 To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers .

1822 B. E. O'Meara tr. N. Buonaparte in Napoleon in Exile II. 52 You were greatly offended with me for having called you a nation of shopkeepers. Had I meant by this, that you were a nation of cowards, you would have had reason to be displeased.

1862 R. W. Emerson Jrnl. 17 Jan. (1913) IX. 364 Governments of nations of shop-keepers must keep shop also.

1898 G. B. Shaw Man of Destiny in Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant II. 334 Napoleon. Was your grandfather a shopkeeper, pray? Lady. No: he was an Englishman. Napoleon. That accounts for it. The English are a nation of shopkeepers.

1943 D. L. Sayers King's Herald in Man born to be King i. 67 I see a worldly priesthood, a worldly ruler, a worldly people—a nation of shopkeepers and petty bureaucrats, their hearts fixed on cash and credit.

1972 Times of India 30 Dec. 10/4 India takes its position on the basis of principle. We are not a nation of petty shopkeepers selling our support to the one who pays the highest price.

2010 Independent 11 Jan. 32/1 If Napoleon were alive today, I'm sure he would say we are no longer a nation of shopkeepers but a nation of shoppers.

Derivatives

ˈshopkeeperess n. rare a female shopkeeper. [In quot. 2003 translating early modern German kremerin (15th cent. as †kramerin ; German Krämerin ; < Krämer shopkeeper, pedlar, hawker (see cramer n.) + -in, suffix forming feminine nouns).]

ΚΠ

1858 Chambers's Jrnl. 23 Oct. 261/1 No tight, prim, pale, eager shopkeeperesses.

1905 Truth 9 Feb. 368/1 The retired shopkeepers and shopkeeperesses, who comprised the bulk of the local society, declined to have anything to do with him.

2003 S. C. Ogilvie Bitter Living v. 265 [In 1598] A widow called ‘die Kremerin’ (‘the shopkeeperess’) was fined for having ‘bought up and regrated nuts and other foodstuffs’.

ˈshopkeeperish adj. rare having the nature of a shopkeeper.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [adjective] > shopkeeper or tradesman

souterly1534

weaverly1643

shopocrat1832

shopkeeperish1840

shoemakerish1866

1840 Metrop. Mag. 29 166 I thought you were a complete man of business; but I agree with my master—you're a vile shopkeeperish rascal.

2008 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 30 Dec. 12 We couldn't mention the word ‘franchise’ to pharmacists. Franchise, that was just too ordinary and too shopkeeperish.

ˈshopkeeperism n. rare the attitudes or behaviour characteristic of shopkeepers as a class.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > vulgarity

community1600

vulgarness1642

vulgar1655

vulgarism1749

vulgaritya1774

tigerism1836

plebeianness1840

shopkeeperism1843

vulgarianism1920

corniness1932

kitschiness1971

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > shopkeeper or tradesman > characteristics of

shop1769

shopkeeperism1843

1843 T. Carlyle Jrnl. 10 Oct. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London (1884) I. xii. 331 The boundless element of twaddle, dilettantism, shopkeeperism.

1904 G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Jan. in J. G. Huneker Steeplejack (1920) II. 275 Trusts are most excellent things—as superior to competitive shopkeeperism as symphonies are to cornet solos.

2014 Cairns (Austral.) Post (Nexis) 14 Apr. 18 This is shopkeeperism, and you're better off with dirty old bats on your block than that.

† ˈshopkeepery n. Obsolete rare shopkeepers as a class.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > shopkeeper > collectively

shopkeepery1827

1827 Selector Apr. 70/1 The whole scamerage and shop-keepery of the place..came pouring in apace.

1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 55 The whole farmerage and shopkeepery of the place.

1900 Argonaut 15 Oct. 4/2 If a man of the Paris ‘shopkeepery’ (petite bourgeoisie) type were to drop from a balloon into the Yosemite Valley, he would..proceed to arrange a café chantant.

Compounds

General attributive, as in shopkeeper interest, shopkeeper proposal, etc.

ΚΠ

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. vii. 222 A clause in the famous act of navigation established this truly shopkeeper proposal into a law.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xiv. 196 I hated the well-born young special constables..because they would have fought. I hated the gent and shopkeeper special constables, because they would have run away.

1872 Contemp. Rev. June 571 That thriving shopkeeper class which has neither the simplicity of poverty nor the refinement of wealth..is the very backbone of British Philistinism.

1917 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 298/2 His alert manner in the presence of a customer was not of the rural shopkeeper type.

1982 R. Sheppard & M. Valpy National Deal iii. 48 The shopkeeper premiers who govern English Canada prefer not to be seen as grubby powermongers.

2005 P. N. Shorb Retailing Society, retailing State iii. 169 Representatives..were likewise forced to reinvent themselves as explicit champions of shopkeeper interests.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	shopkeeper
释义	shopkeepern. Brit. /ˈʃɒpˌkiːpə/, U.S. /ˈʃɑpˌkipər/ Forms: see shop n. and keeper n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: shop n., keeper n. Etymology: < shop n. + keeper n., after to keep shop at shop n., adj., and int. Phrases 4. 1. A person who carries on business in a shop. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > shopkeeper merchantc1400 shopholder1443 shopkeeper1530 shopman1572 storekeeper1741 box wallah1826 winkler1853 storeman1858 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 267/1 Schoppe kepar. 1589 P. Ive tr. R. Beccarie de Pavie Instr. Warres ii. vii. 189 In the east streate, the shop-keepers, tailers, hosiers, and shomakers. 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes i. iii. 44 in Wks. II I say 'tis nobly done, to cherish Shop-keepers, And pay their Bills, without examining thus. 1688 Edinb. Test. LXXVIII. 26 May in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Chop-keiper Violet Camerone, choapkeiper. 1738 Gentleman's Mag. May 239/2 What are Lawyers without Clients, Shop-keepers without Customers? a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 376 A shopkeeper will never thrive who despises small profits. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xvii. 274 Mr. Bumble stopped not to converse with the small shop-keepers and others who spoke to him deferentially as he passed along. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxi. 293 Marco the son of Marco was haggling with a shopkeeper over a quarter of a pound of salt. 1924 M. Arlen Green Hat v. 152 The shop-keepers are very polite, and courteously do not mind how many you buy. 1976 R. Barnard Little Local Murder ix. 106 'Aven't you 'eard 'ow difficult things are for the small shopkeeper? 2010 Observer (Nexis) 26 Dec. 2 Shouts of ‘welcome, welcome’ ring out as she passes shopkeepers standing in the doors of their stores. †2. slang. An item that has remained unsold for a long time. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > which is easily sold > esp. remaining in the shop unsold shopkeepera1657 a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cccviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 178 Blunt Reason, as an vseless Toole they give; Old Shopkeeper, with rusted Conscience! 1726 H. Wanley Diary 21 Apr. (1966) II. 413 Most of them that remain, are either common books, old Shop-keepers, or Rubbish. 1764 T. Legg Low-life (ed. 3) 76 Petty Booksellers..looking out their imperfect and antient Shopkeepers, that they may expose them to Sale. 1842 New Monthly Mag. July 365 What lots of old shopkeepers would find their way from the glass cases of their weary owners into those of the treasury! 1869 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 94/2 Mr. Murray, the dealer, had three in this class. Warrior, a good-looking bay with big limbs; Holyrood, a powerful made chesnut; and Kilkenny, also a chesnut, and an old shopkeeper that we remember seeing shown here in 1867. Phrases a nation of shopkeepers: a nation whose chief interest and concern lies in commerce; spec. England, the English.Cf. quots. 1766, 1769 at shopkeeping adj. [In the disparaging use with reference to England or the English, probably after French nation boutiquière (1794 or earlier). Although such use is often attributed to Napoleon (compare quot. 1822, which is taken from Napoleon's conversations, conducted in Italian, with his personal physician in exile), it does not appear to have originated with him.] ΚΠ 1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. X. 508 It has been thought no bad description of the Japonese to stile them a nation of shopkeepers. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. vii. 221 To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers . View more context for this quotation 1822 B. E. O'Meara tr. N. Buonaparte in Napoleon in Exile II. 52 You were greatly offended with me for having called you a nation of shopkeepers. Had I meant by this, that you were a nation of cowards, you would have had reason to be displeased. 1862 R. W. Emerson Jrnl. 17 Jan. (1913) IX. 364 Governments of nations of shop-keepers must keep shop also. 1898 G. B. Shaw Man of Destiny in Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant II. 334 Napoleon. Was your grandfather a shopkeeper, pray? Lady. No: he was an Englishman. Napoleon. That accounts for it. The English are a nation of shopkeepers. 1943 D. L. Sayers King's Herald in Man born to be King i. 67 I see a worldly priesthood, a worldly ruler, a worldly people—a nation of shopkeepers and petty bureaucrats, their hearts fixed on cash and credit. 1972 Times of India 30 Dec. 10/4 India takes its position on the basis of principle. We are not a nation of petty shopkeepers selling our support to the one who pays the highest price. 2010 Independent 11 Jan. 32/1 If Napoleon were alive today, I'm sure he would say we are no longer a nation of shopkeepers but a nation of shoppers. Derivatives ˈshopkeeperess n. rare a female shopkeeper. [In quot. 2003 translating early modern German kremerin (15th cent. as †kramerin ; German Krämerin ; < Krämer shopkeeper, pedlar, hawker (see cramer n.) + -in, suffix forming feminine nouns).] ΚΠ 1858 Chambers's Jrnl. 23 Oct. 261/1 No tight, prim, pale, eager shopkeeperesses. 1905 Truth 9 Feb. 368/1 The retired shopkeepers and shopkeeperesses, who comprised the bulk of the local society, declined to have anything to do with him. 2003 S. C. Ogilvie Bitter Living v. 265 [In 1598] A widow called ‘die Kremerin’ (‘the shopkeeperess’) was fined for having ‘bought up and regrated nuts and other foodstuffs’. ˈshopkeeperish adj. rare having the nature of a shopkeeper. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [adjective] > shopkeeper or tradesman souterly1534 weaverly1643 shopocrat1832 shopkeeperish1840 shoemakerish1866 1840 Metrop. Mag. 29 166 I thought you were a complete man of business; but I agree with my master—you're a vile shopkeeperish rascal. 2008 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 30 Dec. 12 We couldn't mention the word ‘franchise’ to pharmacists. Franchise, that was just too ordinary and too shopkeeperish. ˈshopkeeperism n. rare the attitudes or behaviour characteristic of shopkeepers as a class. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > vulgarity community1600 vulgarness1642 vulgar1655 vulgarism1749 vulgaritya1774 tigerism1836 plebeianness1840 shopkeeperism1843 vulgarianism1920 corniness1932 kitschiness1971 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > shopkeeper or tradesman > characteristics of shop1769 shopkeeperism1843 1843 T. Carlyle Jrnl. 10 Oct. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London (1884) I. xii. 331 The boundless element of twaddle, dilettantism, shopkeeperism. 1904 G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Jan. in J. G. Huneker Steeplejack (1920) II. 275 Trusts are most excellent things—as superior to competitive shopkeeperism as symphonies are to cornet solos. 2014 Cairns (Austral.) Post (Nexis) 14 Apr. 18 This is shopkeeperism, and you're better off with dirty old bats on your block than that. † ˈshopkeepery n. Obsolete rare shopkeepers as a class. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > shopkeeper > collectively shopkeepery1827 1827 Selector Apr. 70/1 The whole scamerage and shop-keepery of the place..came pouring in apace. 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 55 The whole farmerage and shopkeepery of the place. 1900 Argonaut 15 Oct. 4/2 If a man of the Paris ‘shopkeepery’ (petite bourgeoisie) type were to drop from a balloon into the Yosemite Valley, he would..proceed to arrange a café chantant. Compounds General attributive, as in shopkeeper interest, shopkeeper proposal, etc. ΚΠ 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. vii. 222 A clause in the famous act of navigation established this truly shopkeeper proposal into a law. View more context for this quotation 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xiv. 196 I hated the well-born young special constables..because they would have fought. I hated the gent and shopkeeper special constables, because they would have run away. 1872 Contemp. Rev. June 571 That thriving shopkeeper class which has neither the simplicity of poverty nor the refinement of wealth..is the very backbone of British Philistinism. 1917 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 298/2 His alert manner in the presence of a customer was not of the rural shopkeeper type. 1982 R. Sheppard & M. Valpy National Deal iii. 48 The shopkeeper premiers who govern English Canada prefer not to be seen as grubby powermongers. 2005 P. N. Shorb Retailing Society, retailing State iii. 169 Representatives..were likewise forced to reinvent themselves as explicit champions of shopkeeper interests. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530
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