ticky-tacky

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Cheap, low-quality building material, especially as that used to make conventional suburban housing of a uniform design. US,uncountable
    — And the boys go into business, and marry and raise a family / In boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.
形容词 adj.
  1. Made of this material; cheaply built, of low quality. US,not-comparable
    — My first impression was that Phoenix was another American Dream (a la L.A.) come true—ticky-tacky tract housing complexes and mini-malls stretching boundlessly into the flat desert horizon.
  2. Inferior, minor, trivial. broadly,not-comparable
    — It almost seems that major discipline problems take care of themselves; it is the day-to-day little ticky-tacky issues that bind and scratch and itch until you find that you are boxed in with a class that you can no longer control.

词形变化

ticky tacky alternative ticky tacky alternative

词汇关系

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ticky-tack

词源

词源 1
Probably reduplication of tacky. Apparently coined by Malvina Reynolds in the early 1960s (see quotation, below).
词源 2
Probably reduplication of tacky. Apparently coined by Malvina Reynolds in the early 1960s (see quotation, below).
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