单词 | junk shop |
释义 | junk shopn. In early use: a shop in which old or discarded items or materials that may be reused, such as (originally) old rope or (later also) textiles, bottles, scrap metal, worn-out machinery, etc., are bought and sold. Later: a shop selling second-hand articles of any kind. Cf. junk store n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods jeweller's shop1632 ironmongery1648 ironmonger1673 jeweller1675 news shop1688 print shop1689 Indian house1692 coal shed1718 pamphlet shop1721 lormery1725 drugstore1771 hardware store1777 junk store1777 chandler-shop1782 junk shop1790 music store1794 pot shop1794 finding store1822 marine store1837 picture house1838 paint shop1847 news agency1852 chemist1856 Army and Navy1878 cyclery1886 jumble-shop1893 pig shop1896 Manchester department1905 lot1909 craft shop1911 garden centre1912 pet shop1927 sex shop1949 video store1949 quincaillerie1951 home centre1955 Army-Navy1965 cookshop1967 sound shop1972 bucket-shop1973 1790 Public Advertiser 12 Apr. Eight Persons carried to an old Junk-shop, between Eight and Nine Hundred Weight of Hawser and Tow line Ropes. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames ii. 50 Receivers..who kept Old Iron and Junk Shops in places adjacent to the River. 1831 N.-Y. Spectator 8 July Two story building, owned and occupied by Mrs Lucinda Summerville, and a junk shop, destroyed. 1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes iii. 171 She confessed to having purchased from a junk-shop the charming little gilt-framed oblong mirror. 1951 M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael iii. i. 157 I saw it..in a tray in a junk shop. 2003 M. Ali Brick Lane xx. 403 The sofa came from a junk shop. Compounds General attributive and objective, as junk shop bargain, junk shop find, junk shop owner, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > second-hand shop junk store1777 second-hand shop1795 rubbish shop1833 junk shop1838 thrift shop1947 second-hander1969 thrift store1972 1838 Morning Herald (N.Y.) 7 June A junk shop keeper..bought the sail from the prisoner for the sum of four dollars. 1896 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Mar. 331 There it was, battered and rusted in spots, as junk-shop bargains sometimes are, but evidently still serviceable. 1947 Hollywood Q. 3 128/1 The inside of the cabin was a fantastic world contrived by the mate out of junk-shop treasures and souvenirs of Oriental sea voyages. 1957 Times 31 May 12/7 Another thing that used to puzzle me..is the way junk-shop owners never seem to want to sell you anything. 2007 S. Dosani & P. Cross Re-energise your Relationship (new ed.) xxxiii. 144 Jazz up junk shop finds with distressed paint techniques. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1790 |
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