Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes, especially cheap and common clothes: used when such clothes were of indifferent quality.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th slop, 3.

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  • noun dated One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing
  • noun a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing

Etymologies

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slop +‎ seller

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Examples

  • He had taken good care not to let the slopseller know of his wealth; indeed, that fact he kept locked in his own bosom, as he did his purse in a place in which no one was likely to discover it.

    The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • The purser, Simon Cheeseparings -- that isn't his real name -- was a slopseller in Wapping, but outran his creditors and had to come to sea to escape from Newgate; and the doctor's a Scotchman whose name begins with Mac, and for brevity's sake Mac he is always called.

    The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Coningsby's coat was made by Stultz; almost every fellow in the sixth form had his coats made by Stultz; yet Coningsby fancied that his own garment looked as if it had been furnished by some rustic slopseller.

    Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • A gem-man who often comes down with me says his father was a slopseller in Ratcliffe Highway, and afterwards marrying the widow of Admiral Hughes, a rich old West India nabob, he left this young gemman the bulk of his property, and a very worthy fellow he is: but we've another rich fellow that's rather notorious at Brighton, which we distinguish by the name of the _silver

    The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828

  • Tell Mr Beaujou, the slopseller, to come here directly with some clothes for him.

    The King's Own Frederick Marryat 1820

  • So home, and late at my office, then home and there found a couple of state cups, very large, coming, I suppose, each to about L6 a piece, from Burrows the slopseller.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • So home, and late at my office, then home and there found a couple of state cups, very large, coming, I suppose, each to about L6 a piece, from Burrows the slopseller.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Hither comes to me young Captain Beckford, the slopseller, and there presents me a little purse with gold in it, it being, as he told me, for his present to me, at the end of the last year.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Hither comes to me young Captain Beckford, the slopseller, and there presents me a little purse with gold in it, it being, as he told me, for his present to me, at the end of the last year.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys, February 1667/68 Pepys, Samuel 1668

  • Hither comes to me young Captain Beckford, the slopseller, and there presents me a little purse with gold in it, it being, as he told me, for his present to me, at the end of the last year.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

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