Schlocky vs Adobe - What's the difference?
schlocky | adobe |
An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
* (rfdate) O’Henry, Cabbages and Kings
* (rfdate) O’Henry, Roads of Destiny
* (rfdate) Star Wars script
* 26 May 2003 , Roger Angell, in The New Yorker ,
A house made of adobe brick.
* {{quote-news, 2007, March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order, New York Times
, passage=The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever
As an adjective schlocky
is of inferior quality, cheap.As a noun adobe is
an unburnt brick dried in the sun.adobe
English
(wikipedia adobe)Noun
(en-noun)- Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
- Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.
- “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
- The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.
- The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.
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* mudbrick (definition 1)Anagrams
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*adobe, Online Etymology DictionaryEnglish terms derived from Arabic English terms derived from Spanish ----