conky adj.
sub-standard, second-rate.
‘’Arry on Arrius’ in Punch 26 Dec. 303/2: Your Cockney eternal? No doubt! [...] / It’s much more than your conkey old Classicks, for they ’ave about ’ad their day. | ||
Truth (Sydney) 19 Feb. 3/7: Well, he were a conkey feller / In his own small tlnpot way. | ||
I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 232/1: conky – no good. |