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- adjective slang Anything
mass-produced and made to be affordable, with no regards toquality orcraftsmanship .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jack London was wandering around Europe, after having written The People of the Abyss, view photo when he received a telegram telling him he was a father for the second time. ecky was born on a Monday afternoon at 2: 30.
Becky London – A Short Biography of Jack London's Daughter 2010
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My favourite episode consisted of Bill Odie dressed in breeches and a flat cap wielding a black pudding ... well just hitting people with the black pudding in a demonstration of the ancient martial art of 'ecky thumph'.
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My happy carb range is 100-140, any lower and I get the binge feeling, and any higher I feel ecky.
Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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The other ecky thing about basements though, is that they are often very damp (and therefore smelly), a dehumidifier might go a long, long way to making it nicer.
Ask MetaFilter bluedaisy 2010
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Pictures in magazines and newspapers revealed he normally played in black and favoured a cloth cap of almost ecky thump proportions, but apart from a few inconclusive glimpses during the
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Pictures in magazines and newspapers revealed he normally played in black and favoured a cloth cap of almost ecky thump proportions, but apart from a few inconclusive glimpses during the
The Guardian World News Paul Wilson 2010
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Who would give an ecky thump, for instance, if the characters on Coronation Street began conspicuously eating Cadbury's chocolate?
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And there appears to be no hope of the BBC ever repeating the ecky thump sketch.
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And the resulting poor-whites were labeled in Barbadian dialect through the centuries in many ways, of which Collymore, probably himself a descendant of one of them, lists many: backra, buckra, ecky becky, poor backra, redleg, spawgee; but he neither indicates the derogatory status of these names nor makes any effort to offer etymologies.
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‘ecky thump, what’s that Mavis goin on abaht – us wearing flat caps?
baggage 2005
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