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Shoppish
- - Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.
Shoptalk
- unknown - Specialised vocabulary or conversation relating to one's work
Shopworn
- adjective - repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
- worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn merchandise at half price"
Shore Up
- verb - support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building"
Shorings
- noun - a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
- the act of propping up with shores
Shorling
- - The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing.
Shortage
- noun - an acute insufficiency
- the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"
Shortcut
- noun - a route shorter than the usual one
Shortens
- verb - become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
- make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
Shortest
- unknown - shorter than all others