Etymology

shoppy

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Today it means: Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon. Full definition →

English shop ← Middle English schoppe ← Old English scoppa
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*skup-
  2. Old Englishscoppa
  3. Middle Englishschoppe
  4. Englishshop
  5. English todayshoppy

From shop + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.