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manky en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From mank + -y.

Meanings

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
    • I bet your fanny's fucking minging / Sort out your manky Scouse brow 2016 December 3, Millie B, “Soph Aspin Send”, performed by Millie B:
    • "Speaking of which—" Fionn starts foostering in the pocket of his manky old jacket—"I've probably got something for you." 2010, Marian Keyes, The Brightest Star in the Sky:
    • "He don't want those," his father said, holding a bag of apples at the end of an outstretched arm as if they were a danger to his health, "they're all... manky." 2005, Justin Peter Beaney, Kasdeja's Children:
  2. (qualifier:Antarctica, slang) Being or having bad weather.
    • On that occasion, we left Punta Arenas blue-eyed shags beat their way across the icy waves; when you glimpse at close quarters as I did one manky morning in the Lemaire Channel the blurred shape of a humpback whale […] 2007, The Spectator, volume 305, numbers 9342-9350, page 44:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
mankiest Degree=Sup lexicographic
mankier Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

dingle

Deriveds

mankiness · manky mallard · mankily

Synonyms

mank

Translations (15)

de verdreckt (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · de ekelig (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · es asqueroso (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · fi paskainen (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · fr dégoutant (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · de widerlich (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · de eklig (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · ja 汚れた (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · cs špinavý (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · es repugnante (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · ja 不快な (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · cs odporný (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · ja むかつく (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · fr sale (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting) · fr dégueulasse (unpleasantly dirty and disgusting)