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The Collaborative International Dictionary
grungy

grungy \grungy\ adj. thickily covered with ingrained dirt or soot; as, a grungy kitchen.

Syn: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grungy

"sloppy, shabby," 1965, American English slang, perhaps a blend of grubby and dingy.

Wiktionary
grungy

a. 1 dirty; shabby; in disrepair. 2 Of or relating to grunge music.

WordNet
grungy

adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, raunchy]

Usage examples of "grungy".

Stenner sat talking to Bollinger, a grungy redhead with bad teeth and a worse attitude.

Wrinkled, grungy black T-shirt that satiny FILM SCHOOL with a clapsticks logo on the back.

A short time later, wearing his grungiest T-shirt, shorts, and work boots, he took the flats to the front yard and began to plant.

The old fiberglass pallets, roofed for the moment under Sandy's grungy chickenhouse, groaned under their loads.

Dressed, made-up, even bedecked with jewelry, she looked so fine that had she not been well-known around the grungier end of the spaceport, she most certainly would have been mugged.

She was sweaty and sticky in her uniform and wondered how much grungier she would get.