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window-shop

window-shop verb: to engage in window-shopping; to browse the windows of shops with no intention of buying anything.

Verb

window-shop (third-person singular simple present window-shops, present participle window-shopping, simple past and past participle window-shopped)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in window-shopping; to browse the windows of shops with no intention of buying anything.
  2. (intransitive, uncommon) To browse for romantic partners by meeting new people without any intention of having a long-term relationship.

window-shop meaning in Kannada

window-shop in Kannada

ನೋಟ ಕೊಳ್ಳುಗೆ

Forms of window-shop

third-person singular presentwindow-shops
present participlewindow-shopping
past participlewindow-shopped
pastwindow-shopped

Origin of window-shop

Back-formation from window-shopping.

Words formed from window-shop

Questions about window-shop

What does window-shop mean?
Window-shop means to engage in window-shopping; to browse the windows of shops with no intention of buying anything.
What is window-shop in Kannada?
Window-shop in Kannada is ನೋಟ ಕೊಳ್ಳುಗೆ. See Window-shop meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is window-shop?
Window-shop is a verb.
What is the past tense of window-shop?
The past tense of window-shop is window-shopped.

Words near window-shop in the dictionary

  1. window-frames
  2. window-kill
  3. window-kills
  4. window-seat
  5. window-seats
  6. window-shop
  7. window-shopped
  8. window-shopper
  9. window-shoppers
  10. window-shopping
  11. window-shops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: window-shop (page history and authors); window-shop (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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