Ticky-tacky (noun)
ti-ki-tak-i
Inferior or cheap material, especially as used in suburban building.
According to the etymology of Ticky-tacky it was first coined in song “Little Boxes” by U.S. political folk-singer Malvina Reynolds and was probably used as a musical reduplication of tacky.
Example sentences
“I doubt very much that will be standing in a hundred years, not with that ticky-tacky build quality.”
“Hundreds of ticky-tacky houses were flattened in the earthquake.”
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