shopkeeperism
English
Etymology
shopkeeper + -ism
Noun
shopkeeperism (uncountable)
- The characteristic attitudes and behaviours of a shopkeeper.
- 1950, Quarterly Review of Literature (volume 6, page 104)
- Their general petty shopkeeperism is so constant, their relinquishment of a concern for literature and public taste so commonplace, we are inclined to forget the flagrancy of their defection.
- 1950, Quarterly Review of Literature (volume 6, page 104)