Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hackneyed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hackney \Hack"ney\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hackneyed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Hackneying}.]
1. To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or
carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or
commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation.
Had I lavish of my presence been, So
common-hackneyed in the eyes of men. --Shak.
2. To carry in a hackney coach. --Cowper.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hackneyed
adj : repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic
sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace";
"hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating
threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom";
"the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: {banal}, {commonplace},
{shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn}, {tired},
{trite}, {well-worn}]
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