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Tacky   Listen
noun
Tacky  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" Quotes from Famous Books



... lately more fully described by Captain Pizzighelli. This process—called also "Photanthrakography"—is founded on the property of chromated gelatine which has not been acted on by light to swell up in lukewarm water, and to become tacky, so that in this condition it can retain powdered color which had been dusted on it. Wherever, however, the chromated gelatine has been acted on by light, the surface becomes horny, undergoes no change in warm water, and loses all sign of tackiness. In this process ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 286 - June 25, 1881 • Various



Words linked to "Tacky" :   tasteless, brassy, flashy, flash, tatty, meretricious, loud, gaudy, trashy, gimcrack, cheap



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