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ticky-tack

noun

Etymology

Probably a back-formation from ticky-tacky (adjective).

Definitions

  1. Something of low value

    Something of low value; (by extension) something meaningless or insignificant.

    • But why should we have to struggle against this garbagy tide of cheap rip-off ticky-tack, when we could be drinking the wine of paradise even now under our own vine & fig tree?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ticky-tack. 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