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mangy
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Word definitions for mangy in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He wore a mangy fur hat and a ragged coat. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Richard looked around at the broken glass and mangy , tethered ponies. ▪ The Celtic tiger, mangy or otherwise, arrived too late to uproot lives and ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mangy \man"gy\, a. [Compar. mangier ; superl. mangiest .] [F. mang['e], p. p. of manger to eat. See Manger .] Infected with the mange; scabby. Shabby; worn-out; seedy; run-down; squalid; as, a mangy old coat; a mangy tavern.
Usage examples of mangy.
Manliest of maidens, Maethild, swordless sought the mangier of men, grim Grendel, gruesome in gore.
They came from a flat occupied by a certain Erika Mangier, of no fixed occupation.
On reaching the premises, they found the mutilated body of a woman, presumed to be Erika Mangier herself.
Antonio watched with sad puppy eyes as Christian, who had been listening to Jem tell how he had Asmodeus in a headlock, followed by a mangier move, strolled over to me and slid his arm around my waist.
Christian, who had been listening to Jem tell how he had Asmodeus in a headlock, followed by a mangier move, strolled over to me and slid his arm around my waist.
System Mangier on the phone and tell him you were trying to break into his jukebox?
The resurrector, the former hero, flinging himself like a mangy, shaggy mutt at his lackey, who just laughs at him!
They, whoever they might turn out to be, would have leisure to compare the style in which Castle Bright-water did these things with their scroungy brigand on a mangy rented Mule.
Deathlands in packs, like mangy wolves, slinking into law-abiding villes and stealing food and supplies.
Evening Star commune, parked his car, said hello to a spacey-eyed woman traipsing along behind a herd of mangy goats, and headed briskly toward a nearby hoganlike structure in which a recent commune arrival known as Lord Elephant holed out.
Three overstuffed chairs and a mangy green couch were piled high with discarded clothing, and on the floor lay shoes, stockings and underthings, as if she were in the habit of undressing as she walked and flinging her clothes as she went.
Next to the barroom they had one full of old rotting chairs and beer cases where about ten mangy cats lived.
It spread to the yard beyond us, where the grey bulks of Number Three, Number Two and Number One crouched with noses pointed at a common center, like three enormous mangy cats glaring at their prey.
With an oath, the hulking humanoid bent to squash the offending bug, but just then he was bitten by a large deerfly and stung by a bumblebee that had alighted on his mangy shoulder.
As the figures have often become mangy, so the frescoes are with few exceptions injured by damp and mould.