mangy
/ˈmeɪn.d͡ʒi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.
adj
Example Sentences
- "We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York."
- "When we came abreast again, they faced the river, stamped their feet, nodded their horned heads, swayed their scarlet bodies; they shook towards the fierce river-demon a bunch of black feathers, a mangy skin with a pendent tail— something that looked a dried gourd; they shouted periodically together strings of amazing words that resembled no sounds of human language; and the deep murmurs of the crowd, interrupted suddenly, were like the responses of some satanic litany."
- "Specter Knight: 'YOUR QUEST TO BECOME KING OF CARDS HAS NOT... GONE UNNOTICED.' / King Knight: 'AH, WORD HAS REACHED THE SLUMS, HAS IT? AM I TO TRAVEL WITH AN ENTOURAGE OF MANGY BEGGARS, NOW?'"
- "And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English mange Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English mangy From mange + -y.