Dictionary

mangy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈmeɪn.d͡ʒi/
• mānʹjē

Etymology

Etymology tree English mange Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English mangy From mange + -y.

Meanings

1. Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
2. (broadly) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.
   • We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.
   • Specter Knight: 'YOUR QUEST TO BECOME KING OF CARDS HAS NOT... GONE UNNOTICED.' / King Knight: 'AH, WORD HAS REACHED THE SLUMS, HAS IT? AM I TO TRAVEL WITH AN ENTOURAGE OF MANGY BEGGARS, NOW?' 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: Spectral Ravine:
   • When we came abreast again, they faced the river, stamped their feet, nodded their horned heads, swayed their scarlet bodies; they shook towards the fierce river-demon a bunch of black feathers, a mangy skin with a pendent tail— something that looked a dried gourd; they shouted periodically together strings of amazing words that resembled no sounds of human language; and the deep murmurs of the crowd, interrupted suddenly, were like the responses of some satanic litany. 1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion):
3. Contemptible, despicable, low.
   • And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […] 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33:

Forms

Deriveds

manginess · mangily

Synonyms

scruffy · decrepit · shabby

Translations (41)

cs opelichaný (worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit) · eo skabia (afflicted with mange) · fi kapinen (afflicted with mange) · ru чесо́точный (afflicted with mange) · acw جربان (afflicted with mange) · sh šȕgav (afflicted with mange) · sh шу̏гав (afflicted with mange) · pl plugawy (afflicted with mange) · ca ronyós (afflicted with mange) · fr galeux (afflicted with mange) · ru запу́щенный (worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit) · bg кра́став (afflicted with mange) · cs prašivý (afflicted with mange) · ro râios (afflicted with mange) · de räudig (afflicted with mange) · nrf galeux (afflicted with mange) · unm kshipsi (afflicted with mange) · it rognoso (afflicted with mange) · sv skabbig (afflicted with mange) · de schäbig (worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit) · la scaber (afflicted with mange) · tr uyuzlu (afflicted with mange) · ar أَجْرَب (afflicted with mange) · ga gearbach (afflicted with mange) · pt sarnento (afflicted with mange) · ru парши́вый (worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit) · pl parszywy (afflicted with mange) · mk шугав (afflicted with mange) · uk коро́стявий (afflicted with mange) · tr uyuz (afflicted with mange) · de krätzig (afflicted with mange) · ru парши́вый (afflicted with mange) · ca sarnós (afflicted with mange) · pl nędzny (worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit) · nl schurftig (afflicted with mange) · kmr gurî (afflicted with mange) · ckb گەڕۆڵ (afflicted with mange) · ckb گەڕ (afflicted with mange) · ru убо́гий (worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit) · es sarnoso (afflicted with mange) · it scabbioso (afflicted with mange)