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ticky-tacky, n. and a. orig. U.S.|ˈtɪkɪˌtækɪ|
[Prob. redupl. f. tacky n. and a.1]
A. n. Inferior or cheap material, esp. that used in uniform suburban building.
1962M. Reynolds Little Boxes (1964) (song) 3 And they're all made out of ticky tacky, And they all look just the same. 1973Newsweek 30 July 71 The real point is, will..Watchung Pharmaceutical get those 250 unspoiled acres around Howard's tree farm which have been zoned for a park, there to produce more poppable pills and sprinkle company ticky-tacky over the landscape? 1978M. Butterworth X marks Spot iii. 26 A large and gloomy Victorian pub, heavily overlaid with up-to-date ticky-tacky.
B. adj. Made of ticky-tacky; cheap, in poor taste.
1969Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 10 May 19/1 Men who desecrate the landscape with hundreds of ticky-tacky houses and..call themselves developers. 1970O. Norton Dead on Prediction iii. 46 The house was one of those ticky-tacky semi-bungalows, which are given a false air of expensiveness. 1977Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXV. 119/1 Critics of the private sector complain of ticky tacky little boxes spread all over the country. |