shop-soiled

From shop (noun) +‎ soiled (adjective).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɒpsɔɪld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑpˌsɔɪld/

shop-soiled (comparative more shop-soiled, superlative most shop-soiled)

1. Synonym of shopworn.
   1. Of a product in a retail store: damaged from being on display and handled by customers, etc.
      • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

        All Tuesday week afternoon she was hunting to match that chenille but at last she found what she wanted at Clery's summer sales, the very it, slightly shopsoiled but you would never notice

      • 1977, Paul Hasluck, Mucking About: An Autobiography:

        The only book of poetry in the whole lot was a shop-soiled copy of The Poems of George Herbert in the World Classics series.

      • 2004, Richard Christou, Drafting Commercial Agreements:

        The most usual examples of this are the sales of second-hand or shop-soiled goods where the vendor clearly states their condition and sells them "as seen".

   2. (figurative) Not fresh or new.

• “shop-soiled, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2025.
• “shop-soiled”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.