adj
Meaning 1
Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mangy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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mānʹjē
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/ˈmeɪn.d͡ʒi/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -eɪndʒi
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CMU ARPABET: M EY1 N JH IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Examples
- We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: decrepit, scruffy, shabby
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Contemptible, despicable, low.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a mangy carpet
- a mangy old fur coat
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mangey
Antonyms: none provided
History
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.
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: أَجْرَب (ʔajrab) — afflicted with mange
- Arabic: جربان (jarbān) — afflicted with mange
- Bulgarian: кра́став (krástav) — afflicted with mange
- Catalan: ronyós — afflicted with mange
- Catalan: sarnós — afflicted with mange
- Czech: prašivý — afflicted with mange
- Dutch: schurftig — afflicted with mange
- Esperanto: skabia — afflicted with mange
- Finnish: kapinen — afflicted with mange
- French: galeux — afflicted with mange
- German: krätzig — afflicted with mange
- German: räudig — afflicted with mange
- Irish: gearbach — afflicted with mange
- Italian: rognoso — afflicted with mange
- Italian: scabbioso — afflicted with mange
- Central Kurdish: گەڕ (gerr) — afflicted with mange
- Central Kurdish: گەڕۆڵ (gerroll) — afflicted with mange
- Northern Kurdish: gurî — afflicted with mange
- Latin: scaber — afflicted with mange
- Macedonian: шугав (šugav) — afflicted with mange
- Norman: galeux — afflicted with mange
- Polish: parszywy — afflicted with mange
- Polish: plugawy — afflicted with mange
- Portuguese: sarnento — afflicted with mange
- Romanian: râios — afflicted with mange
- Russian: чесо́точный (česótočnyj) — afflicted with mange
- Russian: парши́вый (paršívyj) — afflicted with mange
- Serbo-Croatian: шу̏гав — afflicted with mange
- Serbo-Croatian: šȕgav — afflicted with mange
- Spanish: sarnoso — afflicted with mange
- Swedish: skabbig — afflicted with mange
- Turkish: uyuz — afflicted with mange
- Turkish: uyuzlu — afflicted with mange
- Ukrainian: коро́стявий (koróstjavyj) — afflicted with mange
- Unami: kshipsi — afflicted with mange
- Czech: opelichaný — worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit
- German: schäbig — worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit
- Polish: nędzny — worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit
- Russian: убо́гий (ubógij) — worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit
- Russian: запу́щенный (zapúščennyj) — worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit
- Russian: парши́вый (paršívyj) — worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit