Shaky vs Shoddy - What's the difference?
shaky | shoddy |
Shaking]] or [[tremble, trembling.
Nervous]]; [[anxious, Anxious.
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(of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
* (seeCites2)
Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
Being of poor quality or construction
A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.
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* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 324:
As adjectives the difference between shaky and shoddy
is that shaky is shaking]] or [[tremble|trembling while shoddy is being of poor quality or construction.As a noun shoddy is
a low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.shaky
English
Adjective
(er)- a shaky spot in a marsh
- a shaky hand
- He’s a nice guy but when he talks to me, he acts shaky .
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- shaky timber
- a shaky constitution
- shaky business credit
Synonyms
* (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, unsteady, tottering, unsafe, unstable, wobblyDerived terms
* shakiness * shakycamshoddy
English
Adjective
(er)- Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking.
Noun
- To fill contracts for hundreds of thousands of uniforms, textile manufacturers compressed the fibers of recycled woolen goods into a material called “shoddy ”.