Catchpenny

Definition: Catchpenny

Catchpenny

Adjective

1. Designed to sell quickly without concern for quality; "catchpenny ornaments".

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Date "catchpenny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Catchpenny

Cheapness

Adjective: cheap; low, low priced; moderate, reasonable; inexpensive, unexpensive; well worth the money, worth the money; magnifique et pas cher; good at the price, cheap at the price; dirt cheap, dog cheap; cheap, cheap as dirt, cheap and nasty; catchpenny;discounted.

Deception

Untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem.

Unimportance

Poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible; (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse. not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; Noun: beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain; (useless).

Catchpenny Twist (1980)

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the sieur Hunks espouses the lady Catchpenny.

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Albanian

xhingël (curio, gewgaw, gimcrack, knick knack, Nick nack, Spangle, tinsel, trinket), i pavlerë (bad, barren, base, chaffy, cheap, crummy, dud, expendable, fiddling, footling, frivolous, futile, jejune, measly, nugatory, paltry, peddling, tawdry, threepenny, trashy, vain, valueless, worthless). (various references)

Bulgarian 

рекламаджийски, панаирджийски (showy). (various references)

Czech

lákavý (attractive, inviting, seductive, tempting). (various references)

German

zugkräftig (catchy, crowd-pulling, eye-catching, hot), publikumswirksam. (various references)

Hungarian

vásári fórum, bóvli (brummagem ware, bum, chintzy, piece of junk, rubbishy, shoddy, trumpery). (various references)

Manx

speanagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

atchpennycay.(various references)

Portuguese

mal feito (nailed-up, rough-and-ready, sodden), inferior (bad, below, blanket, bottom, brutish, cheap, coarse, common, corny, currish, dependant, dependent, ground floor, hereinafter, inelaborate, inferior, less, lesser, low, mean, menial, minor, nether, poor, subordinate, trashy, under, undermost, unequal, wishy-washy), artigo sem valor. (various references)

Romanian

marfã proastã, marfa ordinarã. (various references)

Russian 

показной (flashy, grandstand, meretricious, ostensible, ostentatious, sham battle, sporty, tinhorn). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tričarije (trumpery), koji ima dobru prođu. (various references)

Spanish

llamativo (aggressive, arresting, blatant, effective, flamboyant, garish, gaudy, jazzy, obtrusive, screaming, showy, staring, startling, striking), bisutería (imitation jewellery, imitation jewelry). (various references)

Swedish

säljande (selling), publikdragande, lockvara (feature, leader). (various references)

Turkish

işporta malı. (various references)

Ukrainian

розрахований на дешевий успіх, показний (affected, conspicuous, flashy, imposing, meretricious, orchidaceous, ostensible, ostensive, ostentatious, portly, presentable, pretentious, showy, specious, sporty, stagey, stagy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

loè loẹt (flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gingerbread, rococo, showy, tawdry, tinty). (various references)

Misspellings

"Catchpenny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Catchen, Cathenne, Rathkenny. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: penchant.

-3 letters: chantey, enchant, patency, peccant, phytane, tenancy.

-4 letters: accent, accept, cachet, catchy, chance, chancy, chanty, hapten, hepcat, patchy, peachy, pechan.

-5 letters: anent, cache, canny, canty, catch, chant, chape, chapt, cheap, cheat, enact, epact, hance, henna, hyena, nance, nancy, natch, neath, panne, panty, patch, paten, peach, peaty, pecan, penna, penny, tache, teach, techy, tench.