Colloquial Variant guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, attributive, derogatory, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: BTEC, dollar-store, Netflix adaptation, poor man's, Poundland, pound-shop, Temu, Tesco Value
Antonyms: none provided
History
From the domain name of the e-commerce platform Wish, because many poor-quality and counterfeit goods have been sold on it, itself from wish + .com (created as an application that allowed shoppers to create wish lists of their favorite products before matching them with merchants).
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
