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shoddies

shoddies is the plural of shoddy.

Meaning of shoddy

Noun

shoddy (countable and uncountable, plural shoddies)

  1. A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.
    • Formerly, shoddy cloth was “used only for padding, and such like purposes, but now blankets, flushings, druggets, carpets, and table covers, cloth for pilot and Petersham great” coats, &c., are either wholly or partly made of shoddy, which, in fact, is “occasionally worn by everybody. The beautiful...1849, “A Statistical Outline of the Present Condition & Progress of the Anglo-Saxon Race”, in The Anglo-Saxon, page 123
  2. (dated) Worthless goods.
  3. (colloquial, dated) Vulgar pretence or sham.

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Questions about shoddies

What is shoddies the plural of?
Shoddies is the plural of shoddy.

Words near shoddies in the dictionary

  1. shod
  2. shodan
  3. shodans
  4. shodden
  5. shoddier
  6. shoddies
  7. shoddiest
  8. shoddily
  9. shoddiness
  10. shoddinesses
  11. shoddy

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