shopbought

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English

Etymology

From shop +‎ bought.

Adjective

shopbought (not comparable)

  1. Purchased from a shop; not homemade.
    Synonym: storebought
    • 1972, Fatma Mansur, Bodrum: A Town in the Aegean, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 203:
      While most women in her group offer their guests shopbought biscuits on visiting days, she likes to make her own and is often called upon by neighbours to teach someone to make pastry.
    • 2002, Nigella Lawson, Forever Summer, Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, published 2005, →ISBN, page 16:
      I have to say, I also love proper pizza cooked this way, on the barbecue, but in high summer, making up batches of yeasted dough can seem uninviting at the very least. Besides, while shopbought flatbreads are fabulous, prepackaged pizza bases most definitely are not.
    • 2003, Sharon Owens, The Tea House on Mulberry Street, Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 244:
      She mumbled something about the bus breaking down and gave them cold meat slices and shopbought salad for tea.
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