shopper (shoper)

[ A day's shopping is a sort of campaign, from which the shopper returns plundered and discomfited, or laden with the spoil of vanquished shopmen. Howells , Venetian Life, xx. shopping (shop'ing), n. [Verbal n. of shop1, v.] The act or practice of visiting shops for the purchase or examination of goods: as, she is very fond of shopping. What between shopping and morning visits with mamma, I contrive to enjoy myself tolerably. Mrs. H. More , Cœlebs, xxiii. There was an army of dre makers to see, and a world of shopping to do. C. D. Warner , Backlog Studies, p. 277. shop pish (shop'ish), a. [ shoppy (shop'i), a. [ "His statement about being a shop-boy was the thing I liked best of all." "I am surprised at you, Margaret," said her mother. "You who were always accusing people of being shoppy at Hilstone!" Mrs. Gaskell , North and South, xi. 2. Characterized by the presence of shops; abounding with shops: as, a shoppy street. The street book-stalls are most frequent in the thorough. fares which are well-frequented, but which, as one man in the trade expre ed himself, are not so shoppy as others. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 292. 3. Given to talking shop: as, he is apt to be shoppy in conversation.-4. Concerning one's own busine , profe ion, or pursuit. They [artists] a ociate chiefly with one another, or with profe edly art-appreciating people whose conversation, if not unintellectual, is generally shoppy . The Century , XXXI. 399. [Colloq. in all uses.] shop-ridt (shop'rid), a. bedrid .] Shop-worn. [ shop1 + -rid , as in May the moths branch their velvets, and their silks only be worn before sore eyes! may their false lights undo 'em, and discover pre es, holes, stains, and oldne in their stuffs, and make them shop - rid. Beau, and Fl ., Phil aster, v. 3. shop-shiftt (shop's hift), n. A shift or trick of a shopkeeper; cheating. There's a shop - shift ! plague on 'em. B. Jonson. shop-thief (shop'thef), n. One who steals goods or-money from shops; a shoplifter. shop-walker (shop'wa"ker), n . Same as floor walker.