单词 | shoppie |
释义 | shoppien. 1. Scottish. A little shop. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop shopc1390 seldc1450 cheap-house1606 bursea1661 swag1676 repository1725 store1731 warehouse1754 sale-shop1757 shoppie1773 emporium1803 mercantile1984 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > small shop boutique1767 shoppie1773 shoplet1872 1773 R. Fergusson Poems 109 When auld Saunt Giles, at aught o' clock, Gars merchant lowns their chopies lock. 1872 Queen Victoria Jrnl. 13 June in D. Duff Victoria in Highlands (1968) 260 At half-past ten drove out in the waggonette..and drove beyond Mrs. Patterson's ‘shoppie’ a little way. 1887 W. Carnie Waifs of Rhyme 17 I ken a winsome wifikie that keeps a snug bit shoppie. 1900 Weekly Standard & Express (Blackburn) 2 June 5 Were ye thinkin' on startin' a shoppie o' yer ain? 1996 S. Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web 21 At the back o the shoppie far he wirkit. 2015 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 10 Jan. 56 It wis Sandy's sister that ran the shoppie. 2. colloquial. Usually in form shoppy. A shop assistant. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > shopkeeper > shopworkers shopman1662 window clerk1770 clerka1790 shop attendant1813 shoppie1818 shop assistant1821 shop-walker1825 counter-jumper1829 show-woman1848 assistant1853 counterman1853 counter-skipper1858 floor-walker1876 floor manager1887 window man1887 frontsman1896 inworker1909 lot attendant1934 sales clerk1934 1818 Neckclothitania 4 5 It has completely obliterated all distinction between the accidental nobleman, and the oriental shoppy. 1849 F. Walpole Four Years in Pacific I. 109 You have a faithful portrait of the ‘shoppy.’ He talks turfy, recounts hunting reminiscences of home. 1909 P. 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. 1934 H. A. Vachell Disappearance of Martha Penny i. 20 Her sparkling eyes, her fine figure, were gifts rarely bestowed upon urban ‘shoppies’. 2011 M. A. McEuen Making War 77 These women, it implied, were not chorus girls or shoppies or Atlantic City bathing beauties out on holiday as their predecessors had been. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1773 |
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