shoddy

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• UK: /ˈʃɒd.i/
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• UK: [ˈʃɔd.i]
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• Canada, US: /ˈʃɑ.di/
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• Canada, US: [ˈʃɒ.ɾi]
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• homophone: shawty (cot–caught merger, flapping)
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• homophone: shotty (flapping)
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• rhymes with -ɒdi
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• CMU ARPABET: SH AA1 D IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* 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.

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: долнопробен (dolnoproben) — of poor quality
• Chinese Mandarin: 劣等 (lièděng) — of poor quality
• Danish: skod — of poor quality
• Dutch: nagemaakt — of poor quality
• Finnish: kehno — of poor quality
• Finnish: huonolaatuinen — of poor quality
• Finnish: surkea — of poor quality
• Finnish: ala-arvoinen — of poor quality
• Finnish: kämäinen — of poor quality
• Finnish: juosten kustu — of poor quality
• French: effiloché — of poor quality
• Galician: ruín — of poor quality
• Galician: trapalleiro — of poor quality
• German: minderwertig — of poor quality
• German: billig — of poor quality
• German: schäbig — of poor quality
• German: schlampig — of poor quality
• Greek: φτηνός (ftinós) — of poor quality
• Greek: κακής ποιότητας (kakís poiótitas) — of poor quality
• Italian: scadente — of poor quality
• Japanese: 見掛け倒しの (mikakedaoshi no) — of poor quality
• Japanese: 劣等な (rettō na) — of poor quality
• Korean: 조잡하다 (jojaphada) — of poor quality
• Latin: scadens — of poor quality
• Latin: malefactus — of poor quality
• Māori: pūtaitai — of poor quality
• Norwegian: slurvet — of poor quality
• Norwegian: slurvete — of poor quality
• Polish: kiepski — of poor quality
• Polish: lichy — of poor quality
• Polish: marny — of poor quality
• Polish: tandetny — of poor quality
• Polish: partacki — of poor quality
• Portuguese: ruim — of poor quality
• Russian: дрянно́й (drjannój) — of poor quality
• Russian: низкопро́бный (nizkopróbnyj) — of poor quality
• Spanish: mal hecho — of poor quality
• Spanish: chapucero — of poor quality
• Spanish: flojo — of poor quality
• Spanish: burdo — of poor quality
• Spanish: chafa — of poor quality
• Spanish: chanta — of poor quality
• Spanish: chimbo — of poor quality
• Spanish: cutre — of poor quality
• Spanish: deterior — of poor quality
• Spanish: purrio — of poor quality
• Spanish: choreto — of poor quality
• Spanish: chungo — of poor quality
• Swedish: tafflig — of poor quality
• Swedish: slarvig — of poor quality
• Turkish: adi — of poor quality
• Turkish: kalitesiz — of poor quality
• Turkish: uyuz — of poor quality
• German: Reißwolle — low-grade cloth made from used wool or wool byproducts
• Korean: 재생모 (jaesaengmo) — low-grade cloth made from used wool or wool byproducts