shoppy

comparative shoppier · superlative shoppiest

1. datedInclined to talk shop; full of jargon.

   Standish had a mind that "seldom wandered from the shop and things shoppy," […]

   1987, Carol Groneman, Mary Beth Norton, "To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at Work, 1780-1980

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   I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.

   1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

   When golfers get together their talk is more unutterably shoppy than even that of hunters, cricketers, or racing men.

   1890, Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant

   A novel of clerical life written by a clergyman is apt to be what is vulgarly called shoppy, to dwell upon details which may interest other clergymen […]

   1900, Macmillan's Magazine

2. rareOf the kind or quality expected from a shop.

   For instance, he had three eggs for breakfast; two his landlady had supplied, good, but shoppy, and one was a delicious fresh goose-egg, laid, cooked, and served by his extraordinary will.

   1898, H G Wells, The Man Who Could Work Miracles

3. colloquialdatedAbounding with shops.

   Big omnibuses, with horses three abreast, came leisurely along, crowded outside and in exclusively with males, all on business bent. Right before me was Market-street—a grimy shoppy street […]

   1872, Belgravia, volume 18, page 193