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smeggy

smeggy adjective: bad, foul, inferior.

Adjective

smeggy (comparative more smeggy, superlative most smeggy)

  1. (UK, slang) Bad, foul, inferior.
    • We'd been cooped up in a smeggy coach all the way from Leeds. No one told me how far it was to the south coast. And England's supposed to be small. It took us ages. Any road, we finally arrived, got parked and made for the chip shop.2005, David Gill, Doolally, page 19

Forms of smeggy

comparativemore smeggy
superlativemost smeggy

Origin of smeggy

From smeg + -y.

Questions about smeggy

What does smeggy mean?
Smeggy means bad, foul, inferior.
What part of speech is smeggy?
Smeggy is an adjective.

Words near smeggy in the dictionary

  1. smeg
  2. smegged
  3. smegger
  4. smeggers
  5. smegging
  6. smeggy
  7. smeghead
  8. smegheads
  9. smegma
  10. smegmas
  11. smegmata

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