[syn: cheap, chinchy, chintzy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cheap \Cheap\ (ch[=e]p), n. [AS. ce['a]p bargain, sale, price;
akin to D. koop purchase, G. kauf, Icel. kaup bargain. Cf.
Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i.]
A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.]
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The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me
lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in
Europe. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cheap \Cheap\, a. [Abbrev. fr. "good cheap": a good purchase or
bargain; cf. F. bon march['e], [`a] bon march['e]. See
Cheap, n., Cheapen.]
1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as
compared with the usual price or the real value.
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Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers,
there the thing to be sold will be cheap. --Locke.
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2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
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You grow cheap in every subject's eye. --Dryden.
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Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the
catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cheap \Cheap\, adv.
Cheaply. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cheap \Cheap\, v. i.
To buy; to bargain. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cheap
adj 1: relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would
have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family
restaurants" [syn: cheap, inexpensive] [ant:
expensive]
2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish
colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a
meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn:
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy,
gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty,
tawdry, trashy]
3: of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: bum, cheap, cheesy,
chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny]
4: embarrassingly stingy [syn: cheap, chinchy, chintzy]