shoddy

Senso (Inglese)

Traduzioni

de mauvaise qualité

κακής ποιότητας

mal hecho

malefactus

mal hecha

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Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈʃɒd.i/
Etimologia (Inglese)

* 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 adjectival sense was apparently derived from inexpensive shoddy (“fabric from wool-processing byproduct”), which was not really suitable for (but was sometimes still used for) things such as military uniforms at the beginning of the US Civil War.

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