pet shop
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1.0
- noun
- /pɛt ʃɑp/
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tienda de mascotas
- Ace enters the pet shop.
- pet shop window
- pet shop owner
- puppy at the pet shop
And the van hire place was inside a pet shop, random.
- And the van hire place was inside a pet shop, random.
- We had a precinct, we had shops, we had pet shops, we had barbers, we had clothes shops, we had jewellers.
- They took me back to where I was from, from, well, back then you know, it was, and they got me a flat at the back of a pet shop, which was the scariest place ever.
- And I know, I know pet shops are bad, but hear me out.
Examples
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She was the smallest in a litter of pugs we saw in a pet shop window on East 78th Street.
Fiction book (1995) -
Look, tomorrow morning we'll go to the pet shop, yeah?
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Wait for me at the pet shop.
Fiction book (1995) -
I wish they would do a little bit of research before going to a pet shop.
Blog text (30) -
Let's stop by the pet shop on the way to the hospital and get you another one.
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He runs a pet shop down the street.
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He was so cute and friendly back at the pet shop.
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Why aren't you at the pet shop?
Fiction book (1999) -
Kandra read books and spoke to local veterinarians and pet shop owners about the care of cats.
Academic text (2002) -
Let's visit the pet shop to look for a new puppy.
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Morphology
The meaning 'a shop where people can buy pet animals and related supplies' is directly and compositionally derived from 'pet' (domesticated animal kept for companionship) + 'shop' (a place to buy goods). This simple noun–noun compound follows common and cross-linguistically frequent patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Pet shop comes from the simple idea of a pet, an animal people keep at home, and a shop, a place to 'buy' things. So, pet shop means a store where people can 'buy' 'animals' and supplies.