Shop vs Shoppy - What's the difference?
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An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
* Cowper
A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop.
* Shakespeare
An automobile mechanic's workplace.
Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk'', ''closed shop'' and ''shop floor .
A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
(business, computing) an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively.
An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.
(transitive, slang, chiefly, UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
(internet slang) Shorthand for photoshop ; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
(dated) Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon.
* Elizabeth Gaskell
* 1890 , Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant
* 1900 , Macmillan's Magazine
* 1987 , Carol Groneman, Mary Beth Norton, "To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at Work, 1780-1980
(rare) Of the kind or quality expected from a shop.
* 1898 , H G Wells, The Man Who Could Work Miracles
(colloquial, dated) Abounding with shops.
As a noun shop
is an establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.As a verb shop
is to visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.As an interjection shop
is (used to attract the services of a shop assistant).As an adjective shoppy is
(dated) inclined to talk shop; full of jargon.shop
English
Noun
(en noun)- From shop' to ' shop / Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks / The polished counter.
- A tailor called me in his shop .
- Our company is mostly a Java shop .
- This is where I do my weekly shop .
Synonyms
* (establishment that sells goods) boutique, retail outlet, store (US); see also * (place where things are crafted) atelier, studio, workshop * (sense, automobile mechanic's workplace) garage * (workplace) office, place of work, workplace * (wood shop) carpentry, wood shop, woodwork * (metal shop) metal shop, metalworkDerived terms
* beauty shop * bucket shop * charity shop * chip shop * close up shop * coffee shop * cop shop * corner shop * food shop * gift shop * like a bull in a china shop * one-stop shop * op shop * pawn shop * pet shop * Photoshop® * pound shop * repair shop * sex shop * shoe shop * shopaholic * shop assistant * shopfloor * shopfront * shopgirl * shophouse * shopkeep * shopkeeper * shopman * shop right * shop steward * shop talk * shopward * shopwards * shopworn * shut up shop * swap shop * sweet shop, sweet-shop, sweetshop * wood shop * workshopVerb
(shopp)- I went shopping early, before the Christmas rush.
- He’s shopping for clothes .
- He shopped his mates in to the police.
Synonyms
* (to report a criminal to authority) grass up (slang)Derived terms
* shop around * shopper * shop till you drop * window shoppingAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsshoppy
English
Adjective
(er)- I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
- When golfers get together their talk is more unutterably shoppy than even that of hunters, cricketers, or racing men.
- 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
- Standish had a mind that "seldom wandered from the shop and things shoppy ,"
- 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.