Meaning

noun reclaimed wool fiber

adjective cheap and shoddy; - Judith Crist

adjective of inferior workmanship and materials

origin* Unknown, but possibly from shoad (“loose stone and rubble; fragments”), equivalent to shoad + -y; or possibly from the Arabic word for reuse. Shoad was of inferior quality for building. * The modern adjectival sense was apparently derived from inexpensive shoddy (“fabric from wool-processing byproduct”), which was not really suitable for (but was sometimes still used for) things such as…

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