shopward

English

Etymology

shop +‎ -ward

Adverb

shopward (not comparable)

  1. Toward a shop.
    • 1836, “Elnathan Yardstick”, in Atkinson's Casket, volume 11, page 262:
      As the morning sun was exposing his countenance for about the thousandth time since Elnathan Yardstick had left the employment of his old master, and set up in the 'dry goods-line' for himself, the said Elnathan was seen to issue from his father's mansion and wend his way shopward, with a strap-encircled bundle of account books under one arm, a small leather brass-nailed trunk in his opposite hand, and the iron key to his repository, of earthly goods and chattels, peeping from the aperture of his coat pocket.
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