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Shoddy

['ʃɒdɪ] or ['ʃɑdi]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) reclaimed wool fiber.

阿尔玛編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) A fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo.

(v. t.) A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy.

(a.) Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as, shoddy cloth; shoddy blankets; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy.

埃尔默編輯

解釋/意思:

n. (orig.) the waste arising from the manufacture of wool: now applied to the wool of old woven fabrics reduced to the state in which it was before being spun and woven and thus fit for remanufacture: the inferior cloth made from this substance: worthless goods: (coll.) pretence sham vulgar and baseless assumption.—adj. made of shoddy: inferior trashy: pretentious sham counterfeit: ambitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth.—n. Shodd′yism.

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