Meaning

• A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.

• Worthless goods.

• Vulgar pretence or sham.

Meaning

• Of poor quality or construction

  "Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking."

• Pretentious, sham, counterfeit

• Ambitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth; nouveau riche