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mankiest

mankiest is the superlative 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 mankiest

What is mankiest the superlative form of?
Mankiest is the superlative form of manky.

Words near mankiest in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mankiest (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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