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tack·y1    Audio Help   [tak-ee] Pronunciation Key
–adjective, tack·i·er, tack·i·est.
sticky to the touch; adhesive.

[Origin: 1780–90; tack1 + -y1]

tack·i·ness, noun
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tack·y2    Audio Help   [tak-ee] Pronunciation Key
–adjective, tack·i·er, tack·i·est.
1.not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
2.shabby in appearance; shoddy: a tacky, jerry-built housing development.
3.crass; cheaply vulgar; tasteless; crude.
4.gaudy; flashy; showy.

[Origin: 1880–85, Americanism; appar. identical with earlier tack(e)y small horse, pony, poor farmer; of obscure orig.]

tack·i·ness, noun
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tack·y 1    Audio Help   (tāk'ē)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   tack·i·er, tack·i·est
Slightly adhesive or gummy to the touch; sticky.


[From tack1.]

tack'i·ness n.
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tack·y 2    Audio Help   (tāk'ē)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   tack·i·er, tack·i·est Informal
  1. Neglected and in a state of disrepair: a tacky old cabin in the woods.
    1. Lacking style or good taste; tawdry: tacky clothes.
    2. Distasteful or offensive; tasteless: a tacky remark.


[From tackey, an inferior horse.]

tack'i·ly adv., tack'i·ness n.
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tacky  (1)
"sticky," 1788, from tack (1) in the sense of "an act of attaching temporarily."

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tacky  (2)
"in poor taste," 1862, adj. use of tackey (n.) "small or inferior horse" (1800), later "hillbilly, cracker" (1888), of uncertain origin.

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tacky

adjective
1. (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch; "tacky varnish" 
2. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" 

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Tacky

Tack"y\, a. [Etymol. uncert.] Dowdy, shabby, or neglected in appearance; unkempt. [Local, U. S.]

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Tacky

Tack"y\, n. [Written also tackey.] An ill-conditioned, ill-fed, or neglected horse; also, a person in a like condition. [Southern U. S.]

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Tacky

Tack"ey\, a. & n. See Tacky.

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