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mungy

mungy adjective: dingy; of a dull and indeterminate colour.

Adjective

mungy (comparative more mungy, superlative most mungy)

  1. (informal) dingy; of a dull and indeterminate colour
    • He glanced down at the knee-shot jeans and the T-shirt that peeked out from a mungy gray zippered sweatshirt.2010, Sheila Simonson, Buffalo Bill's Defunct: A Latouche County Mystery
    • I'm just about to start my work of replacing signs when an old Jeep Wagoneer, kind of a mungy brown, pulls up. Max is driving, with Sylvia in the passenger seat.2011, Robin Reardon, The Evolution of Ethan Poe, page 20

Forms of mungy

comparativemore mungy
superlativemost mungy

Questions about mungy

What does mungy mean?
Mungy means dingy; of a dull and indeterminate colour.
What part of speech is mungy?
Mungy is an adjective.

Words near mungy in the dictionary

  1. mungs
  2. munguba
  3. mungubas
  4. Munguia
  5. Munguias
  6. mungy
  7. Mungyamba
  8. muni
  9. muni's
  10. munia
  11. munias

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