shoppy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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 […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skup- Old English scoppa Middle English schoppe 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.