Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of shop-bought.
She mumbled something about the bus breaking down and gave them cold meat slices and shopbought salad for tea.
2003, Sharon Owens, The Tea House on Mulberry Street, Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 2442 more examples
While most women in her group offer their guests shopbought biscuits on visiting days, she likes to make her own and is often called upon by neighbours to teach someone to make pastry.
1972, Fatma Mansur, Bodrum: A Town in the Aegean, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 203I have to say, I also love proper pizza cooked this way, on the barbecue, but in high summer, making up batches of yeasted dough can seem uninviting at the very least. Besides, while shopbought flatbreads are fabulous, prepackaged pizza bases most definitely are not.
2002, Nigella Lawson, Forever Summer, Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, published 2005, →ISBN, page 16Synonyms: storebought
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