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
   • When golfers get together their talk is more unutterably shoppy than even that of hunters, cricketers, or racing men.1890, Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant
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