manky
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈmæŋki/
- Slang
- We've been reduced to using seawater for everything but drinking... so don't be alarmed if the kit you get is a little bit manky.
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- Just be careful and let me buy you a nice razor so you don't have to use your dad's manky old one.
Examples
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Why are they all standing around that manky old boot?
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I'm feeling a bit manky.
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She had that manky hair and dark pencil around the eyes, the way they wear it in London.
Fiction book (2000) -
Also, my grapes (the house and garden being only mine for one year) are moldy and powdery white and very manky looking.
Blog text (7) -
That restaurant was so manky that I couldn't finish my meal.
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He wore a manky shirt that looked like it hadn't been washed in weeks.
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The park was covered in manky litter after the festival ended.
Synonyms
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4.1
Very bad or mean and not liked by people
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6.7
Low quality and unpleasant
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6.5
Worn and dirty, in bad condition
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5.4
Looking worn and dirty from use
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6.0
Dirty and not good quality
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7.7
Covered with sticky, dirty stuff
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9.2
An informal word used to say something is bad or low quality
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7.4
Untidy and dirty, with things out of place
Very dirty and unpleasant to touch or use
Antonyms
How Dirty
Surface Forms
Morphology
manky = mank + y
Although it looks like an adjective formed with the productive suffix '-y', the root 'mank' is nonstandard/colloquial and not a recognizable base for typical learners, so the meaning cannot be reliably derived from components.
Etymology
Manky is British slang for something 'dirty', 'unpleasant', or 'of poor quality'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the similar word mangy, which describes a sick, shabby animal; both give the image of something grubby, so manky came to mean 'filthy' or 'worthless'.