"skiffy" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Phonetic spelling of sci-fi to capture deliberate mispronunciation (with \"sc\" being read as /sk/ and \"i\" being read as short vowel /i/ instead of diphthong /aɪ/).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "skiffy (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Science fiction",
          "orig": "en:Science fiction",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, David Hartwell, “The Golden Age of Science Fiction is Twelve”, in Age of Wonders, →ISBN, page 13:",
          "text": "The science fiction reader sneers at fake SF, artificially produced film tie-in novels and stories, most SF films, most TV SF. This he calls sci-fi (or \"skiffy\")—junk no right-thinking omnivore or chronic should read, watch, or support.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989 July, Bruce Sterling, SF Eye, number 5, page 77:",
          "text": "Many of the best new writers seem openly ashamed of their backward Skiffy nationality.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Peter Nicholls, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, →ISBN, page 1079:",
          "text": "Around 1978 the critic Susan Wood and others began pronouncing the term \"skiffy\". In 1980s-1990s usage \"skiffy\", which sounds friendlier than \"sci fi\", has perhaps for that reason come to be less condemnatory. Skiffy is colourful, sometimes entertaining, junk sf: Star Wars is skiffy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Low-quality science fiction."
      ],
      "id": "en-skiffy-en-noun-sUX84jO0",
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fandom slang, usually derogatory or humorous) Low-quality science fiction."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "humorous",
        "slang",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Skiffy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskɪfi/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪfi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "skiffy"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Phonetic spelling of sci-fi to capture deliberate mispronunciation (with \"sc\" being read as /sk/ and \"i\" being read as short vowel /i/ instead of diphthong /aɪ/).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "skiffy (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English fandom slang",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪfi",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪfi/2 syllables",
        "en:Science fiction"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, David Hartwell, “The Golden Age of Science Fiction is Twelve”, in Age of Wonders, →ISBN, page 13:",
          "text": "The science fiction reader sneers at fake SF, artificially produced film tie-in novels and stories, most SF films, most TV SF. This he calls sci-fi (or \"skiffy\")—junk no right-thinking omnivore or chronic should read, watch, or support.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989 July, Bruce Sterling, SF Eye, number 5, page 77:",
          "text": "Many of the best new writers seem openly ashamed of their backward Skiffy nationality.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Peter Nicholls, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, →ISBN, page 1079:",
          "text": "Around 1978 the critic Susan Wood and others began pronouncing the term \"skiffy\". In 1980s-1990s usage \"skiffy\", which sounds friendlier than \"sci fi\", has perhaps for that reason come to be less condemnatory. Skiffy is colourful, sometimes entertaining, junk sf: Star Wars is skiffy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Low-quality science fiction."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fandom slang, usually derogatory or humorous) Low-quality science fiction."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "humorous",
        "slang",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Skiffy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskɪfi/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪfi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "skiffy"
}