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skankier

skankier is the comparative form of skanky.

Meaning of skanky

Adjective

skanky (comparative skankier, superlative skankiest)

  1. dirty; smutty or scabby
  2. (slang) Resembling or characteristic of a skank (disreputable woman).
  3. (slang) Resembling or characteristic of the skank dance.
    • Heavy Metal, Music from the Motion Picture (1981, Elektra): This movie is pretty lousy if you're sober and/or an adult, and the soundtrack should be either glammier or skankier, or maybe both.2010, Chuck Klosterman, “The Jack Factor”, in Chuck Klosterman on Rock: A Collection of Previously Published Essays

Questions about skankier

What is skankier the comparative form of?
Skankier is the comparative form of skanky.

Words near skankier in the dictionary

  1. skank up
  2. skanked
  3. skanked up
  4. skanker
  5. skankers
  6. skankier
  7. skankiest
  8. skankiness
  9. skanking
  10. skanking up
  11. skanks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skankier (page history and authors); skanky (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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