ticky-tacky

短语

a. & n. <美><口>质量低劣又难看的建筑物, 劣质材料(制成的)

别名

ticky tacky

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Cheap, low-quality building material, especially as that used to make conventional suburban housing of a uniform design.

    美国 不可数
adj.
  1. 1.

    Made of this material; cheaply built, of low quality.

    美国
  2. 2.

    Inferior, minor, trivial.

    引申义

词源

Probably reduplication of tacky. Apparently coined by Malvina Reynolds in the early 1960s (see quotation, below).

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