(informal, dated, British) Used to express disapproval or dissatisfaction.
(informal, dated, British) Used to express disapproval or dissatisfaction.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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Of low quality.
(attributive, _, only) Worthy of pity.
Expressing disdain.
In classic British understatement, quite poor doesn't mean mediocre — it means absolutely terrible. This is meiosis at its most English: the politer the language, the worse the thing being described. Quite poor is the phrase a British person uses when they'd rather die than say something was genuinely awful. Context and tone do all the heavy lifting.
Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc.