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mangas

mangas noun: a type of cocky, working-class man in early twentieth-century Greece, associated with violent behaviour, alcohol and hashish, and celebrated in various folk songs. Also the plural of manga.

Noun

mangas (plural manges)

  1. (historical) A type of cocky, working-class man in early twentieth-century Greece, associated with violent behaviour, alcohol and hashish, and celebrated in various folk songs.
    • Impoverished, disenfranchised, the mangas lived by petty crime and occasional labor.2016, Jane K Cowan, Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece, page 174
    • The mangas was expected to cock a snook at authority, to be quick with a knife and ruthless in avenging insult.2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 172

Also used as

mangas is also the plural of manga.

Forms of mangas

pluralmanges

Origin of mangas

From Greek μάγκας (mágkas).

Plural forms.

Questions about mangas

What does mangas mean?
Mangas means a type of cocky, working-class man in early twentieth-century Greece, associated with violent behaviour, alcohol and hashish, and celebrated in various folk songs.
What part of speech is mangas?
Mangas is a noun.
What is the plural of mangas?
The plural of mangas is manges.

Words near mangas in the dictionary

  1. Mangarevan
  2. Mangarevans
  3. mangarie
  4. Mangaroa
  5. mangars
  6. mangas
  7. Mangasarian
  8. Mangasarians
  9. Mangasaryan
  10. Mangasaryans
  11. Mangat

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