cheapien.adj.

Brit.

/ˈtʃiːpi/, U.S.

/ˈtʃipi/

Forms: Also cheapy.

Etymology: < cheap adj. + -ie suffix, -y suffix⁶.

slang.

A. n.

Something cheap (senses 1a, 4a and 5a); a thing of little value or of poor quality. spec. a film, book, etc., produced on a low budget. Occasionally applied to a person.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [noun]

poornessa1382

chaffc1386

cold roast?1406

arse-guta1413

short end1560

under-kind1571

inferior1589

canvas-back1605

underthing1620

under-sort1655

wasteling1750

slouch1767

shamea1771

neck beefa1777

rep1786

wastrel1790

wastera1800

shoddy1862

piece1884

tinhorn1887

robbo1897

cheapie1898

buckeye1906

reach-me-down1916

dog1917

stinkeroo1934

bodgie1964

cheapo1975

society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > low price or rate > [noun] > cheapness > cheap or inexpensive thing

cheapie1898

affordable1940

cheapo1975

1898 Eng. Dial. Dict. I. 571/2 Cheapy, sb. and adj: Yks. [tʃiə·pi.] 1. sb. A present; a second-hand article. w. Yks. Ah want a coit, an' ah'sl hev ta gooa on t' cheapy (B.K.).

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §30/2 Something poor, mean, contemptible... bushwa, cheapie, chicken-halibut, [etc.].

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 397 Contemptible person... cat licker, cheapie, cheap-mitt, [etc.].

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 587/4 Theater... cheapies, theaters with a small admission charge.

1945 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. v. 338 It [sc. Variety] converts all the other parts of speech into nouns, e.g...clicky (a picture making money), cheapie, biggie, brush-off and vocal (a song).

1950 Jrnl. (Ithaca, N.Y.) 25 July 12/9 A couple of real cheapies..1929 Essex sedan..$39; 1930 Chevrolet Tudor..$59.

1952 Time 12 May 103 Low-cost pictures..known in the trade as ‘cheapies’.

1962 Movie Sept. 5/2 One can identify the same talent..behind a British cheapie of 1937, Jump for Glory, a 1945 racecourse movie, Salty O'Rourke, [etc.].

1968 Telegraph (Brisbane) 30 Dec. 19/1 Gold Coast authorities have cracked down on the ‘cheapies’—youths who sleep at night on the beaches or in cars along the roadside or in parks.

1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake 805 I'll explain that right now we don't happen to have anything in that price range. I give them coffee. I take them by the arm..to Gibbons, who does handle cheapies.

1983 Guardian 29 Nov. 19/3 It identified insurance shares as a cheapy a couple of years back.

B. adj.

Rather cheap, and often of inferior quality. Frequently of films.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [adjective]

salec1299

bastarda1348

sorry1372

slight1393

shrewd1426

singlec1449

backc1450

soberc1450

lesser1464

silly?a1500

starven1546

mockado1577

subaltern1578

bastardly1583

wooden1592

starved1604

perishing1605

starveling1611

minor1612

starvy1647

potsherd1655

low1727

la-la1800

waif1824

lathen1843

one-eyed1843

snide1859

bobbery1873

jerkwater1877

low-grade1878

shoddy1882

tinhorn1886

jerk1893

cheapie1898

shaganappi1900

buckeye1906

reach-me-down1907

pissy1922

crappy1928

cruddy1935

el cheapo1967

pound shop1989

society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > low price or rate > [adjective] > cheap > somewhat cheap

cheapish1872

cheapie1898

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [adjective] > other types

costumed1851

foreign language1904

first run1910

Keystone1912

photodramatic1914

serial1915

coming of age1919

edge-of-your-seat1922

psychodramatic1927

omnibus1928

straight1936

low-budget1937

no-budget1937

screwball1937

Ealing1939

blockbusting1943

private eye1946

film noir1952

white telephone1952

portmanteau1953

uncut1953

anthology1955

three-D1955

Hammer1958

noir1958

co-production1959

kitchen sink1959

kidult1960

docudrama1961

cinéma vérité1963

maudit1963

filmi1965

indie1968

triple-X1969

XXX1969

drama-documentary1970

cheapie1973

gross-out1973

high concept1973

chopsocky1974

hard R1974

buddy movie1975

sci-fi1977

mondo1979

hack-and-slash1981

microbudget1981

hack-and-slay1982

slice-and-dice1982

fly on the wall1983

psychotronic1983

noirish1985

Mad Max1986

stoner1987

bonkbusting1993

straight to DVD1997

1898 Eng. Dial. Dict. I. 571/2 Cheapy,..adj. Rather cheap, of second-rate quality. n. Yks. (I. W.) w. Yks. Them trahsers are a bad fit, they're nowt nobbut cheeapy (B.K.).

1973 Sat. Rev. Arts (U.S.) Feb. 50/1 That five of the eighteen [new] movies were American-made comedies suggests the beginnings of a trend toward comedy to follow the current run of violence oriented black films, X-rated sex movies and cheapie rip-offs of The Godfathers.

1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 7 b/7 Remember those cheapie exploitation movies like ‘Reefer Madness’, so shabbily made that they were actually funny?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	cheapie
释义	cheapien.adj. Brit. /ˈtʃiːpi/, U.S. /ˈtʃipi/ Forms: Also cheapy. Etymology: < cheap adj. + -ie suffix, -y suffix⁶. slang. A. n. Something cheap (senses 1a, 4a and 5a); a thing of little value or of poor quality. spec. a film, book, etc., produced on a low budget. Occasionally applied to a person. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [noun] poornessa1382 chaffc1386 cold roast?1406 arse-guta1413 short end1560 under-kind1571 inferior1589 canvas-back1605 underthing1620 under-sort1655 wasteling1750 slouch1767 shamea1771 neck beefa1777 rep1786 wastrel1790 wastera1800 shoddy1862 piece1884 tinhorn1887 robbo1897 cheapie1898 buckeye1906 reach-me-down1916 dog1917 stinkeroo1934 bodgie1964 cheapo1975 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > low price or rate > [noun] > cheapness > cheap or inexpensive thing cheapie1898 affordable1940 cheapo1975 1898 Eng. Dial. Dict. I. 571/2 Cheapy, sb. and adj: Yks. [tʃiə·pi.] 1. sb. A present; a second-hand article. w. Yks. Ah want a coit, an' ah'sl hev ta gooa on t' cheapy (B.K.). 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §30/2 Something poor, mean, contemptible... bushwa, cheapie, chicken-halibut, [etc.]. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 397 Contemptible person... cat licker, cheapie, cheap-mitt, [etc.]. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 587/4 Theater... cheapies, theaters with a small admission charge. 1945 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. v. 338 It [sc. Variety] converts all the other parts of speech into nouns, e.g...clicky (a picture making money), cheapie, biggie, brush-off and vocal (a song). 1950 Jrnl. (Ithaca, N.Y.) 25 July 12/9 A couple of real cheapies..1929 Essex sedan..$39; 1930 Chevrolet Tudor..$59. 1952 Time 12 May 103 Low-cost pictures..known in the trade as ‘cheapies’. 1962 Movie Sept. 5/2 One can identify the same talent..behind a British cheapie of 1937, Jump for Glory, a 1945 racecourse movie, Salty O'Rourke, [etc.]. 1968 Telegraph (Brisbane) 30 Dec. 19/1 Gold Coast authorities have cracked down on the ‘cheapies’—youths who sleep at night on the beaches or in cars along the roadside or in parks. 1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake 805 I'll explain that right now we don't happen to have anything in that price range. I give them coffee. I take them by the arm..to Gibbons, who does handle cheapies. 1983 Guardian 29 Nov. 19/3 It identified insurance shares as a cheapy a couple of years back. B. adj. Rather cheap, and often of inferior quality. Frequently of films. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [adjective] salec1299 bastarda1348 sorry1372 slight1393 shrewd1426 singlec1449 backc1450 soberc1450 lesser1464 silly?a1500 starven1546 mockado1577 subaltern1578 bastardly1583 wooden1592 starved1604 perishing1605 starveling1611 minor1612 starvy1647 potsherd1655 low1727 la-la1800 waif1824 lathen1843 one-eyed1843 snide1859 bobbery1873 jerkwater1877 low-grade1878 shoddy1882 tinhorn1886 jerk1893 cheapie1898 shaganappi1900 buckeye1906 reach-me-down1907 pissy1922 crappy1928 cruddy1935 el cheapo1967 pound shop1989 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > low price or rate > [adjective] > cheap > somewhat cheap cheapish1872 cheapie1898 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [adjective] > other types costumed1851 foreign language1904 first run1910 Keystone1912 photodramatic1914 serial1915 coming of age1919 edge-of-your-seat1922 psychodramatic1927 omnibus1928 straight1936 low-budget1937 no-budget1937 screwball1937 Ealing1939 blockbusting1943 private eye1946 film noir1952 white telephone1952 portmanteau1953 uncut1953 anthology1955 three-D1955 Hammer1958 noir1958 co-production1959 kitchen sink1959 kidult1960 docudrama1961 cinéma vérité1963 maudit1963 filmi1965 indie1968 triple-X1969 XXX1969 drama-documentary1970 cheapie1973 gross-out1973 high concept1973 chopsocky1974 hard R1974 buddy movie1975 sci-fi1977 mondo1979 hack-and-slash1981 microbudget1981 hack-and-slay1982 slice-and-dice1982 fly on the wall1983 psychotronic1983 noirish1985 Mad Max1986 stoner1987 bonkbusting1993 straight to DVD1997 1898 Eng. Dial. Dict. I. 571/2 Cheapy,..adj. Rather cheap, of second-rate quality. n. Yks. (I. W.) w. Yks. Them trahsers are a bad fit, they're nowt nobbut cheeapy (B.K.). 1973 Sat. Rev. Arts (U.S.) Feb. 50/1 That five of the eighteen [new] movies were American-made comedies suggests the beginnings of a trend toward comedy to follow the current run of violence oriented black films, X-rated sex movies and cheapie rip-offs of The Godfathers. 1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 7 b/7 Remember those cheapie exploitation movies like ‘Reefer Madness’, so shabbily made that they were actually funny? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.adj.1898
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