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Spoddy vs Shoddy - What's the difference?

spoddy | shoddy |

As adjectives the difference between spoddy and shoddy

is that spoddy is (informal) like a spod; swotty; dorky 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.

spoddy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) Like a spod; swotty; dorky.
  • * (Joanna Trollope), A Spanish Lover
    • Remember those French boys we had to have at school? They were utterly spoddy .

    shoddy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Being of poor quality or construction
    • Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking.

    Noun

  • A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.
  • *
  • * 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 324:
    • To fill contracts for hundreds of thousands of uniforms, textile manufacturers compressed the fibers of recycled woolen goods into a material called “shoddy ”.

    References

    * [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/handlists/023MSBusFox.pdf]

    See also

    * rag and shoddy * mungo * noil