Adjective
Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon.
Usage- Dated
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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.
When golfers get together their talk is more unutterably shoppy than even that of hunters, cricketers, or racing men.
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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," […]
Of the kind or quality expected from a shop.
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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.
Abounding with shops.
Usage- Colloquial
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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 […]