shopgoerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

shop +‎ goer

名詞

shopgoer (複数形 shopgoers)

1. Someone who goes to a shop to make purchases.
   • 1985, Caryl Matrisciana, Gods of the new age, page 12:

     They had been a high-profile curiosity on Oxford Street, London's shopping center, for months as they moved with vigor among the shopgoers and tourists.

   • 1989, James Engell, Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge‎^[1], page 151:

     His warning — and the curious juxtaposition of food with literary genres — suddenly comes alive when we recall how widely the eighteenth-century shopgoer accepted what had been common knowledge among the Aztecs, who first cultivated and brewed the cocoa bean: chocolate acts as a quick, effective aphrodisiac.

   • 2008, Lina Zilionyte, Born for Freedom‎^[2], page 271:

     This was quite a common practice among the shopgoers, for somebody to guard the place while another person was checking what was on sale.

名詞

shop-goer (複数形 shop-goers)

1. Alternative form of shopgoer
   • 1935, The Royal Engineers Journal, volume 49, page 88:

     Large office blocks and shopping streets are being put up with not even an awning to protect the head of the shop-goer from the sweltering Persian sun.