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mankier

mankier is the comparative form of manky.

Meaning of manky

Adjective

manky (comparative mankier, superlative mankiest)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
    • "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. (slang, Antarctica) 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
    Synonyms:
    mank
    Antonyms:
    dingle

Questions about mankier

What is mankier the comparative form of?
Mankier is the comparative form of manky.

Words near mankier in the dictionary

  1. Manker
  2. Mankers
  3. Mankes
  4. manketti
  5. mankettis
  6. mankier
  7. mankiest
  8. mankiller
  9. mankillers
  10. mankily
  11. mankin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mankier (page history and authors); manky (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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