slop-seller

Our young friends care about as much for Saint George as they do for Saint Thomas Aquinas; they would think twice before they permitted themselves to be poked at with an unbuttoned foil; and as for the deeds of their ancestors, a good many of them would have considerable difficulty in establishing their descent even from a creditable slop-seller -- "the founder of our family" -- in the reign of

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

Sweating in the cheap clothes trade was already attracting the notice of reformers, and Punch was on the warpath when a Jew slop-seller prosecuted a poor widow with two children for pawning articles which she had to make up for him.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

DOILEY _ (Abraham) _, a citizen and retired slop-seller.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

_Elizabeth Doiley_, daughter of the old slop-seller, in love with

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

I paid him no attention, supposing him to be a wine-merchant or a slop-seller come to ask permission to serve the ship.

Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer Frederick Marryat 1820

a wine merchant, or a slop-seller, come to ask permission to serve the ship.

Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer Frederick Marryat 1820

"Pantry!" cries the old slop-seller; "you can't impose upon me.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853