English Dictionary

shoddy

IPA（発音記号）

/ʃɒdi/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 古風 口語

A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool. / (dated) Worthless goods. / (colloquial, dated) Vulgar pretence or sham.

日本語の意味

羊毛の副産物またはリサイクルウールから作られた低品質な布製品 / （古い表現）価値のない商品 / （口語・古い表現）下劣な見せかけや仮装

After the war, many families relied on shoddy for insulation because it was cheap and abundant.

戦後、多くの家族は安価で大量に手に入ったため、断熱材として再生羊毛から作られた低品質の布を頼りにしました。

意味（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 woollen table covers are made wholly of shoddy, being printed by aqua-fortis from designs drawn in London and Manchester, and cut on holly and other blocks, on the spot.”

意味（2）

(dated) Worthless goods.

意味（3）

(colloquial, dated) Vulgar pretence or sham.

shoddies （ plural ）