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ShoddyShoddy Shod"dy, n. [Perhaps fr. Shed, v. t.; as meaning
originally, waste stuff shedor thrown off.]
1. A fibrous material obtained by ``deviling,' or tearing
into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags,
druggets, etc. See Mungo.
2. A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a
large amount of, shoddy.
Note: The great quantity of shoddy goods furnished as army
supplies in the late Civil War in the United States
gave wide currency to the word, and it came to be
applied to persons who pretend to a higher position in
society than that to which their breeding or worth
entitles them. Shoddy
Shoddy Shod"dy, a.
Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as,
shoddy cloth; shoddy blankets; hence, colloquially, not
genuine; sham; pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy.
Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious
pride. --Compton
Reade.
ShoddyShoddy Shod"dy, n. [Perh. akin to Shed, v. t.; as meaning
originally, waste stuff shed or thrown off; cf. dial. shod to
shed, and E. Shed a parting, separation, Shode a
parting.]
Fluffy, fibrous waste from wool carding, worsted spinning, or
weaving of woolens.
Meaning of shoddy from wikipedia
- "
Shoddy"
millionaires was a
derogatory term for the war
profiteers in the
North during the
American Civil War. Allegedly, they
supplied the
Union army...
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Recycled wool, also
known as rag wool or
shoddy is any
woollen textile or yarn made by
shredding existing fabric and re-spinning the
resulting fibres....
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Shoddy the
Tailor is a 1915
American silent comedy film
featuring Oliver Hardy.
Raymond McKee -
Henry Buggs Harry Lorraine -
Police Chief Mabel Paige -...
- (the
pieces left over
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metaphor for
shoddy work,
hence the
implication that a "tofu-dreg project" is a
poorly executed...
- sub-label.
Dolls Kill was co-founded in 2011 by
Shoddy Lynn, a
former DJ who went by the
stage name DJ
Shoddy Lynn, and her
husband Bobby Farahi. Previously...
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woollen and rag
products from
householders to sell on to the
Shoddy factories. '
Shoddy',
cloth made from
recycled wool, was
first manufactured (and probably...
- as advertised, in
contrast with the
Vault experiments, but were
usually shoddy and
unreliable due to most of the
funding going towards the experimental...
- one of the key
textile centres in Yorkshire,
famed for its
production of
shoddy and mungo.[page needed] For
years companies had
tried to
blend different...
- Law and Mary Wilby. He is
credited by many
authors as the
inventor of the
shoddy process.
Benjamin Law set up his
business at
Howley Mill. A
memorial to...
- MovieWeb, gave a
negative review of the trailer,
saying it is just as "
shoddy as Neil Breen's
previous films, with
terrible green screen effects, acting...