shoddy
意味
- 再生羊毛製の
- 粗製の品質の悪い,安っぽい
- ごまかしの
- 毛織物のくずなどから作る品質の悪い羊毛;その生地
例文
I've never seen this shoddy of an excuse in my life.
こんな下手な言いわけ初めて見た。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
* Unknown, but possibly from shoad (“loose stone and rubble; fragments”), equivalent to shoad + -y; or possibly from the Arabic word for reuse. Shoad was of inferior quality for building. * The modern adjectival sense was apparently derived from inexpensive shoddy (“fabric from wool-processing byproduct”), which was not really suitable for (but was sometimes still used for) things such as military uniforms at the beginning of the US Civil War.