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cheapoid

adj

Etymology

From cheap + -oid.

  1. derived from caupō
  2. inherited from *kaupōną✻
  3. inherited from *kaupōn✻
  4. inherited from ċēapian — “to buy, bargain, trade”
  5. inherited from chepen
  6. inherited from *kaup✻
  7. inherited from cēap — “trade, market, value”
  8. inherited from chep
  9. suffixed as cheapoid — “cheap + oid”

Definitions

  1. Of inferior quality.

    • Janice thought someone stole her cheapoid camera and ran around accusing everybody, but when we looked, it turned up in the mess under her bed.
    • I explained that the real Regina Leigh must have been on Rosie O'Donnell while Doris was on Glenwood's cheapoid cable news.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cheapoid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA