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adjective

Cheap adj.

Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. "Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap."

Of comparatively small value; common; mean. "You grow cheap in every subject's eye."

Dog cheap, very cheap, a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. (Colloq.)

adverb

Cheap adv. Cheaply.

noun

Cheap n. A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. (Obs.) "The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe."

verb

Cheap v. i. To buy; to bargain. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Cheap'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cheap" Quotes from Famous Books

... then grown so cheap, just to be made A common stake, a prize for love in jest? Was not Castalio very loth to yield it? Or was it Polydore's unruly ...

— The Orphan - or, The Unhappy Marriage • Thomas Otway

... affectional needs of the "supernumerary" woman and the legitimation of her children. There is an excess of women over men, in Germany as in most other countries. That excess, it is said, is balanced by the large number of women who do not wish to marry. But that is too cheap a solution of the question. Many women may wish to remain unmarried, but no woman wishes to be forced to remain unmarried. Every woman, these advocates of the rights of women claim, has a right to motherhood, and in exercising ...

— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

... however, contentedly partook of the plain, wholesome food; and, gayly chatting, they did not seem to notice that the dinner was served up in common china dishes, and that the plates before them were of the same cheap material. Prince William ate with the appetite of a healthy little boy; the crown prince, however, who was twelve years old, did not seem to relish his food. He had disposed of his soup, although he thought it weak and not well flavored, supposing the other courses would be more ...

— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach

... cheap, (Should great Maecenas be my guest,) The vintage of the Sabine grape, But yet in sober cups shall crown the feast: 'Twas rack'd into a Grecian cask, Its rougher juice to melt away; I seal'd it too—a pleasing task! With annual joy to mark the glorious ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume IV [The Rambler and The Adventurer] • Samuel Johnson

... Kern? Why is Chopin's G minor nocturne better music than Thecla Badarzewska's La Priere d'une Vierge? Why is a music drama by Richard Wagner preferable to a music drama by Horatio W. Parker? What makes a melody distinguished? What makes a melody commonplace or cheap? Why do some melodies ring in our ears generation after generation while others enjoy but a brief popularity? Why do certain composers, such as Raff and Mendelssohn, hailed as geniuses while they were yet alive, soon sink into semi-obscurity, while others, such ...

— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten

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