junky, a.
(ˈdʒʌŋkɪ)
[f. junk n.2 + -y1.]
1. Worthless, valueless, rubbishy.
| 1946 ‘G. Orwell’ Coll. Ess. (1968) IV. 92 The kind of junky books..that accumulate in the bottoms of cupboards. 1966 Punch 27 July p. vii, Dealing in junky but odd bric-à-brac and more expensive furniture. 1972 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 16/8 ‘Those are junky schools,’ she declared. ‘They have riots up there every day.’ 1974 New Yorker 25 Feb. 62/3 Not necessarily cheap junk, however. In the past couple of years, an extraordinary demand for junky furniture seems to have arisen in London. |
2. See junkie.