subs. phr. (colloquial).—A ‘boxed’ or ‘pickled’ egg: as distinguished from ‘new-laid.’
1878. H. J. BYRON, Our Boys. Perkin Middlewick. [aside; taking up eggs] SHOP ’UNS. Sixteen a shilling. I knows ’em.
1893. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, 62, ‘On Angling.’ About colds, and cock-salmons, and SHOP ’UNS; it’s one of the rummiest sights.
