shop-soiled
UK/ˈʃɒpsɔɪld/US/ˈʃɑpˌsɔɪld/
shop-soiled adjective: of a product in a retail store: damaged from being on display and handled by customers, etc.
Adjective
shop-soiled (comparative more shop-soiled, superlative most shop-soiled)
- Of a product in a retail store: damaged from being on display and handled by customers, etc.
- All Tuesday week afternoon she was hunting to match that chenille but at last she found what she wanted at Clery's summer sales, the very it, slightly shopsoiled but you would never notice1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
- The only book of poetry in the whole lot was a shop-soiled copy of The Poems of George Herbert in the World Classics series.1977, Paul Hasluck, Mucking About: An Autobiography
- Not fresh or new.
Forms of shop-soiled
| comparative | more shop-soiled |
|---|---|
| superlative | most shop-soiled |
Origin of shop-soiled
From shop (noun) + soiled (adjective).
Questions about shop-soiled
- What does shop-soiled mean?
- Shop-soiled means of a product in a retail store: damaged from being on display and handled by customers, etc.
- What part of speech is shop-soiled?
- Shop-soiled is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce shop-soiled?
- Shop-soiled is pronounced /ˈʃɒpsɔɪld/ (UK).
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