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in the 1860s, it meant using lousy material to make soldiers unifrms

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The word "shoddy" originates from the name of a type of low-quality fabric made from inferior materials, which was first produced in the mid-19th century in England. It eventually came to be used to describe anything of poor quality or workmanship.

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