window-shop

English

Etymology

Back-formation from window-shopping.

Verb

window-shop (third-person singular simple present window-shops, present participle window-shopping, simple past and past participle window-shopped)

1. (intransitive) To engage in window-shopping; to browse the windows of shops with no intention of buying anything.

Derived terms

• window-shopper

Related terms

• window-shopping

Translations

browse shops with no intention of buying

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 逛商店 (guàng shāngdiàn), 逛街 (zh) (guàngjiē)

• Finnish: olla ikkunaostoksilla
• French: faire du lèche-vitrine
• Hungarian: kirakatot/kirakatokat nézeget
• Serbo-Croatian: gledati izloge

Anagrams

• shop window, shopwindow