shoppishadj.
/ˈʃɒpɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈʃɑpɪʃ/ Relating to or characteristic of a shop or shopkeeper. Also: concerning one's own business, profession, or pursuit. Cf. shoppy adj. 2.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > belonging to or characteristic of type of selling
retail1601
shopkeeping1603
wholesale1640
shoppish1815
shoppy1825
soft sell1954
1815 Sporting Mag. June 122/1 To use a shoppish simile—a magazine is like the currant-jelly, which makes even bitters palatable.
1860 Leader 25 July This piece of revenge was about as shoppish an act as ever any shopkeeper..could be capable of.
1949 Spectator 15 Apr. 508/2 Conversation on the Project was non-intellectual, shoppish and personal.
2014 P. Cox & A. Hobley Shopgirls i. 13 She had them taught accounts, the practicalities of how to tie a parcel, and that elusive skill of service, namely a shoppish manner.
Derivatives
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > other specific behaviour > [noun] > professional behaviour
shoppishness1842
shoppism1860
1842 New Monthly Mag. June 188 The ass in the lion's skin was not more readily discovered by its bray, than an English haberdasher, bewhiskered and befrogged, is by an unvanquishable shoppishness, that sticks to him like a leech.
1882 Fraser's Mag. 25 533 His profession stamped upon every movement, yet without the least nautical assumption or ‘shoppishness’.
1912 F. Swinnerton George Gissing Crit. Study 94 By its very ‘shoppishness’ it enables Gissing's purely literary humour..to have freer play.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1815