manky
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 5
/ˈmæŋki/
Definition of manky
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(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."”
“"Speaking of which—" Fionn starts foostering in the pocket of his manky old jacket—"I've probably got something for you."”
“I bet your fanny's fucking minging / Sort out your manky Scouse brow”
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adj
-
(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."”
“"Speaking of which—" Fionn starts foostering in the pocket of his manky old jacket—"I've probably got something for you."”
“I bet your fanny's fucking minging / Sort out your manky Scouse brow”
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(slang)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 […]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From mank + -y.
Words you can make from manky
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