单词 | junk store |
释义 | junk storen. Chiefly North American. In early use: a store in which old or discarded items or materials that may be reused, such as old rope or textiles, bottles, scrap metal, worn-out machinery, etc., are bought and sold. Later: a store selling second-hand articles of any kind. Cf. junk shop n.In quot. 1777: (probably) a storehouse for used cables and ropes (see sense junk n.1 1). 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 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 1777 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 VI. 143 The junk store. 3 squares of clapboarding, at 13s. 1834 Boston Morning Post 5 Feb. Matthew King..obtained a search warrant, to enable him to inspect the miscellanies contained in an old junk-store. 1869 Overland Monthly Oct. 297/1 I saw, within one of those rough curiosity shops known as junk-stores, a quantity of old Army knapsacks. 1908 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 197 We went to look at a marine junk-store. 1921 Motor Boating Jan. 24/1 A fine old cookstove picked up for eight dollars at a junk store offers heat for the cold. 1960 S. Martinelli Let. 16 Dec. in C. Bukowski & S. Martinelli Beerspit Night & Cursing (2001) 123 Walking down calif. street in a yellow coat costing 3 bucks at a junk store. 2007 Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg. Va.) 8 Feb. (Weddings section) 18/2 Go to the local junk store and find really cool costume jewelry and cut it apart. Compounds General attributive and objective, as junk store clothing, junk store keeper, etc. ΚΠ 1835 Docs. Assembly State of N.-Y. (58th Sess., Doc. No. 135) 62/1 (table) Junk store keeper. 1881 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 31 Oct. 5/4 The police..jugged two junk-store keepers and fifteen boys. 1900 Cambridge (Mass.) Chron. 30 June 16/1 The junk collector's license of C. C. Fine and the junk store licenses of Jacob Fine were revoked. 1971 Daily Independent-Jrnl. (San Rafael, Calif.) 10 Sept. 8/6 Even though it is impossible to stay neck-and-neck with the new styles on a limited budget, junk-store clothing can be updated. 1996 Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 77 176/3 ‘Alternative’ careers refers not only to scientists venturing to Wall Street or becoming junk store owners, but to jobs in primary or secondary education. 2016 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 1 May h2 Final dressing comes from a $40 junk store chair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1777 |
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