Woolworthn.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Nov. 862/3 Miss Helen Simpson is refreshingly modern with her ‘Woolworth craze’ at Oxford as the real villain.

1932 W. H. Auden in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1978) Aug. 292 Moving woodenly like a woolworth doll, A lady came in clothes so ugly..that the eye was cruel.

1939 T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Bk. Pract. Cats 22 One of the girls Suddenly missed her Woolworth pearls.

1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair vii. 69 Some Woolworth plants in the gardens.

1974 Guardian 21 Mar. 10 I am never likely to be involved in a study of..Lehar and can only look on all of it as real Woolworth stuff (in contrast to, say, Mozart, who is vintage Fortnum and Mason).

1980 I. St. James Money Stones iii. iii. 106 You couldn't swing a Woolworth watch on diamonds found here.

1933 R. W. Chambers Whatever Love Is xx. 286 A strange, stark, snowless, dingy Christmastide with a Woolworthian cheapness about it.

1937 P. Thornton Dead Puppets Dance II. vii. 144 There were hundreds of people at Kućevište, and many of them wore..high-heeled shoes and Woolworthian stockings if their husbands could afford..them.

1978 Washington Post 27 Aug. c–38/2 Nowadays the plates are chipped and the tables lit by Woolworthian gilded pierced tin lamps flickering with candles.