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mangier

mangier is the comparative 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

Questions about mangier

What is mangier the comparative form of?
Mangier is the comparative form of mangy.

Words near mangier in the dictionary

  1. mangia-cake
  2. mangia-cakes
  3. Mangiaracina
  4. Mangiaracinas
  5. mangie
  6. mangier
  7. mangies
  8. mangiest
  9. mangiferin
  10. Mangilao
  11. mangily

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