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ticky-tacky
tick·y-tack·y T0205700 (tĭk′ē-tăk′ē)n. Shoddy material, as for the construction of standardized housing.adj.1. Made of shoddy material; cheaply built.2. a. Marked by a mediocre uniformity of appearance or style: ticky-tacky rows of look-alike houses.b. Tawdry; tacky.
[ Reduplication of tacky.]ticky-tacky n 1. building material that is cheap and of low quality 2. inferior or shoddy goods adj, -tackier or -tackiest3. cheaply constructed4. inferior or shoddytic•ky-tack•y (ˈtɪk iˌtæk i)
Informal. adj. 1. shoddy and unimaginatively designed: ticky-tacky bungalows. 2. tacky 2. n. 3. ticky-tacky material or something made of it. [1960–65; reduplication of tacky2] Translationsticky-tacky
ticky-tacky (ˈtɪkitæki) n. cheap and shabby material. Those houses are just made of ticky-tacky, and they won’t even be here in twenty years. EncyclopediaSeeTar PaperThesaurusSeetar paper |