shoppier
shoppier is the comparative form of shoppy.
Meaning of shoppy
Adjective
shoppy (comparative shoppier, superlative shoppiest)
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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