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SHOP, n. Also shoap; shope (Edb. 1928 A. D. Mackie In Two Tongues 53; wm.Sc. 1934 T. Smellie Mrs. Goudie's Tea-Pairty 25). Dim. forms shoppie, shoppikie (Abd. 1887 W. Carnie Waifs (1890) 18). Sc. forms of Eng. shop. For other Sc. forms see also Chop, n.¹m.Sc. 1954 J. D. Scott The End of an Old Song (1990) 18:
None of the well-off young oafs who made up this school ever ventured to express any contempt for Alastair because he lived with an aunt who kept a wee shoppie.Dundee 1990 Sheila Stephen in Joy Hendry Chapman 60 52:
"Hees shoap's jist aboot whar ye seen the kuppil."Slg. 1991 Janet Paisley in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 127:
Ah've seen me go in a shoap an jist hoap naebody wid talk tae me.Gsw. 1993 Margaret Sinclair Soor Plooms and Candy Balls 19:
The lassies playin' shoaps wi aw thon broken gless,Dundee 1996 Matthew Fitt Pure Radge 6:
an intirfaith drug ring
set up shoap
ben in oor cludgieAbd. 2000 Herald 15 May 19:
Summer is here again, well and truly. The retirement bungalow in the neuk of the park is like a little ship marooned in a yellow sea of gorgeous oil seed rape.
There is a mavis and two black-birds sitting on their nests in the wood, and one more blackie in the shoppie.

The dim. shoppie is also used for an eight-sided teetotum which had a number on each face, to turn up which involved the player in taking out from or putting into the pool the stated amount of stakes, by a kind of shopkeeping.Ags. 1895 J. Inglis Our Ain Folk 98:
These 'totums were known as “shoppies”, and were usually bocht at the fair, being made of bone, boxwood, or even ivory.

Combs. (1) shop-door, the front flap or fly of trousers. Gen.Sc.; (2) shop-haudder, a shopkeeper; (3) shop-lassie, a female shop-assistant (ne.Sc. 1970).(1) Bwk. 1856 G. Henderson Pop. Rhymes 99:
O Wattie Ross, pu' up your breeks, Nor let your kite shine through the steeks, Your shop-door hangs sae low man!(2) Ayr. 1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage 241:
The shop-haudder wou'd ha'en her to tak some new fangled thing.(3) Ags. 1894 J. B. Salmond Bawbee Bowden (1922) 114:
Eh, how the shop-lassie girned.