shoppy

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon. dated
    — I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
  2. Of the kind or quality expected from a shop. rare
    — 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.
  3. Abounding with shops. colloquial,dated
    — 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 […]

词形变化

shoppier comparative shoppiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
shoppily shoppiness shoppy shop

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *skup-
Old English scoppa
Middle English shoppe
English shop
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English shoppy
From shop + -y.
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