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ˈslop-seller
[f. slop n.1]
A dealer in slop-clothing.
1665Pepys Diary 21 Mar., A couple of state-cups..from Burrows the slopseller. 1691H. Maydman Naval Specul. 129 The Slop-seller, is a Person crept into the Navy, I mean to Monopolize the vending of Cloathing solely. 1758M.P.'s Let. on R.N. 12 The Surgeons, Pursers, and Slopsellers,..are put to great Trouble. 1760C. Johnston Chrysal i. xii, Encouraging Slop-Sellers to come on board, when the men are paying. 1804Naval Chron. XII. 249 The slop⁓sellers, and other sharks, at this port. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxx, Nicholas hurried into a slopseller's hard by, and bought Smike a great-coat. 1882W. Ballantine Exper. xxxiv. 331 A little Hebrew slopseller from the Minories.
So ˈslop-selling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1842Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Dead Drummer Wks. (1905) 339 Addressing those slop-selling females afloat. 1848Dickens Dombey xxxii, One of those convenient slopselling establishments..at the eastern end of London. |