LekhoriLekhoriOf poor quality or construction.
Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking.
Pretentious, sham, counterfeit.
Ambitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth; nouveau riche.
A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.
Formerly, shoddy cloth was “used only for padding, and such like purposes, but now blankets, flushings, druggets, carpets, and table covers, cloth for pilot and Petersham great” coats, &c., are either wholly or partly made of shoddy, which, in fact, is “occasionally worn by everybody. The beautiful woollen table covers are made wholly of shoddy, being printed by aqua-fortis from designs drawn in London and Manchester, and cut on holly and other blocks, on the spot.”
Worthless goods.
* Unknown, but possibly from shoad (“loose stone and rubble; fragments”), equivalent to shoad + -y; or possibly from the Arabic word for reuse. Shoad was of inferior quality for building. * The modern...
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Vulgar pretence or sham.