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Woolworth|ˈwʊlwɜːθ|
The name of the retailing company (orig. sixpenny store) F. W. Woolworth PLC, used attrib. to designate low-priced goods regarded as typical of its merchandise.
1931Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Nov. 862/3 Miss Helen Simpson is refreshingly modern with her ‘Woolworth craze’ at Oxford as the real villain. 1932Auden in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1978) XXIX. 292 Moving woodenly like a woolworth doll, A lady came in clothes so ugly..that the eye was cruel. 1939T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Bk. Pract. Cats 22 One of the girls Suddenly missed her Woolworth pearls. 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair vii. 69 Some Woolworth plants in the gardens. 1974Guardian 21 Mar. 10, I am never likely to be involved in a study of..Lehar and can only look on all of it as real Woolworth stuff (in contrast to, say, Mozart, who is vintage Fortnum and Mason). 1980I. St. James Money Stones iii. iii. 106 You couldn't swing a Woolworth watch on diamonds found here.
Hence Woolˈworthian a.
1933R. W. Chambers Whatever Love Is xx. 286 A strange, stark, snowless, dingy Christmastide with a Woolworthian cheapness about it. 1937P. Thornton Dead Puppets Dance II. vii. 144 There were hundreds of people at Kućevište, and many of them wore..high-heeled shoes and Woolworthian stockings if their husbands could afford..them. 1978Washington Post 27 Aug. c–38/2 Nowadays the plates are chipped and the tables lit by Woolworthian gilded pierced tin lamps flickering with candles. |