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
   • "Speaking of which—" Fionn starts foostering in the pocket of his manky old jacket—"I've probably got something for you."2010, Marian Keyes, The Brightest Star in the Sky
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