Shoppy vs Shoplike - What's the difference?
shoppy | shoplike | see also |
(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 adjectives the difference between shoppy and shoplike
is that shoppy is inclined to talk shop; full of jargon while shoplike is resembling a shop or some aspect of one.shoppy
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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.
