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shoppier

shoppier is the comparative form of shoppy.

Meaning of shoppy

Adjective

shoppy (comparative shoppier, superlative shoppiest)

  1. (dated) Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon.
    • I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
  2. (rare) Of the kind or quality expected from a shop.
    • 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.1898, H G Wells, The Man Who Could Work Miracles
  3. (colloquial, dated) Abounding with shops.
    • 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 […]1872, Belgravia, volume 18, page 193

Questions about shoppier

What is shoppier the comparative form of?
Shoppier is the comparative form of shoppy.

Words near shoppier in the dictionary

  1. shopper
  2. shoppers
  3. shoppertainment
  4. shoppes
  5. shoppie
  6. shoppier
  7. shoppies
  8. shoppiest
  9. shoppily
  10. shoppin'
  11. shoppiness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoppier (page history and authors); shoppy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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