pound-shop

See also: pound shop

English

Etymology

Due to the perception of the goods sold in pound shops as being cheap, low-quality versions of more expensive products found elsewhere.

Noun

pound-shop

1. (attributive, British, informal, derogatory) Used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior imitation.

   Synonyms: (Britain) BTEC, (US, Canada) dollar-store, poor man's, (Britain) Poundland, (Britain) Tesco Value, Wish.com

   • 2021 December 8, Owen Jones, “In Britain’s pound-shop Trumpian administration, rules are for the rest of us”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     […] no rational human being should ever trust a single utterance issued by a pound-shop Trumpian administration.

   • 2023 November 9, Daniel Boffey, quoting Colum Eastwood, “Braverman clarifies Northern Ireland comments amid angry criticism”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Colum Eastwood, the MP for Foyle and leader of the SDLP, the nationalist party whose founding member, John Hume, won a Nobel prize for his championing of the peace process in Northern Ireland, called Braverman a “pound-shop Enoch Powell”.