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Cardboard vs Cardboardy - What's the difference?

cardboard | cardboardy |

As adjectives the difference between cardboard and cardboardy

is that cardboard is made of or resembling cardboard while cardboardy is (informal) resembling cardboard.

As a noun cardboard

is a wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.

cardboard

English

(wikipedia cardboard)

Noun

  • A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.

    • Derived terms

    * cardboard box * cardboard city * cardboard cut-out, cardboard cutout

    See also

    * paperboard

    Adjective

  • Made of or resembling cardboard.
  • * 1868 , Arthur William A'Beckett, "Painted Ships and Painted Oceans", The Tomahawk , page 114:
    • The worst of the thing, however, is that the enormity, such as it is, happens to be of a very cardboard and tinsel character.
  • * 1973 , Journal of Black Poetry , Issue 17, page 27:
    • The thing really looked quite cardboard .
  • * 2008 , Katya Hokanson, Writing at Russia's Border , page 122:
    • While Lensky’s character is quite cardboard , Onegin’s manipulations and lack of ability to call off the duel because he fears society’s jibes, Lensky’s youth and naivety, and Tatiana’s reaction to the duel lend the event its gravity.
  • * Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama , page 501:
    • MUMMER 3 pulls out an inflated cushion with a very cardboard crown on it.

    cardboardy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Resembling cardboard.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 11, author=Michiko Kakutani, title=Hurdles in Harvard Yard and the World Beyond, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Archie never becomes more than a cardboardy cutout figure — a well-meaning, not-too-bright social climber with a dislike of “heavy conversations,” a fellow who “wanted to wear a club tie — the right tie, not all clubs being equal.” }}