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mangey

mangey is the alternative form of mangy.

Meaning of mangy

Adjective

mangy (comparative mangier, superlative mangiest)

  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.
    Synonyms:
    decrepit, scruffy, shabby
  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 of mangey

comparativemore mangey
superlativemost mangey

Questions about mangey

What is mangey the alternative form of?
Mangey is the alternative form of mangy.

Words near mangey in the dictionary

  1. manges
  2. mangetout
  3. mangetouts
  4. Mangewala
  5. Mangewalas
  6. mangey
  7. Mangga
  8. Manggahan
  9. Manggas
  10. Mangham
  11. Manghams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mangey (page history and authors); mangy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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