Etymology

cheapo

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Today it means: Inexpensive and of poor quality. Full definition →

English oh ← Middle English o ← Old French oh
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  1. Englishcheap
  2. Latinō
  3. Old Frenchoh
  4. Middle Englisho
  5. EnglishO
  6. Englishoh
  7. English todaycheapo

From cheap + -o (“person with characteristic”, colloquialising suffix).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.