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Dowdy: Colloq
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tacky
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Word definitions for tacky in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tacky \Tack"y\, a. [Etymol. uncert.] Dowdy, shabby, or neglected in appearance; unkempt. In poor taste; appearing cheap; gaudy; unstylish. Broadly used to describe objects whose style is disapproved of by the speaker. Tactless; in poor taste; -- used to ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Tacky " is a song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic from his fourteenth studio album , Mandatory Fun (2014). The song is a parody of the 2013 single " Happy " by Pharrell Williams . The song mocks questionable taste in fashion as well as activities ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"in poor taste," 1888, from earlier sense of "shabby, seedy" (1862), adjectival use of tackey (n.) "ill-fed or neglected horse" (1800), later extended to persons in like condition, "hillbilly, cracker" (1888), of uncertain origin. Related: Tackiness .\n\nThe ...
Usage examples of tacky.
He is given a new pair of Bata tackies every year but he chops the toe out of them and ties the laces loosely so that his dry-cracked feet will fit in them even when they swell in the heat.
I did the same for the second tackie then slipped ever so carefully out of the newspaper boats and handed the tackies to Harry Crown.
She put the cup of coffee down on the counter, and leaning over grabbed the tackies and turned to me.
She then put the paper boats in the tackies and instructed me to insert my feet into them and tied the laces.
Though I must say they felt very strange and when I walked they made a phlifft-floft sound where the tackies bent at the end of my toes.
Mevrou, will you teach me how to tie the laces so I can take my tackies off in the train?
He looked down at my tackies, bits of newspaper were sticking out of the sides and up past my ankles.
She brought a whole lot of tackies tied together in a bundle back with her.
When she had finished tying the laces she tested the front of the tackies with the ball of her thumb, pressing down onto my toes, then she looked up at me and smiled.
I took the tackies off and Hoppie tied the laces in a knot and hung them around my neck.
At the beginning of my journey the original over-sized tackies had been a banal signal of the end of the Judge, his stormtroopers, the hostel and Mevrou: a grotesque chapter in my life.
The two days between the first tackies and the snugly fitting ones I now wore were the beginning of the end of my small childhood, a bridge of time that would shape my life to come.
Piet told me to bring my tackies in the next morning so they could be properly cleaned for me to wear at the fight.
I had last boarded a train to leave a part of my life behind me, how I had fallen over with my clown tackies stuffed with newspaper, and how Hoppie Groenewald had dusted me down and lifted me up the steps, explaining how he too was always falling down the stupid things.
He was dressed in a white shirt, cream flannels and white tackies and looked more like a cricketer than a boxing referee.