mangy

English

Alternative forms

• mangey

Etymology

mange +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• enPR: mānʹjē, IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪndʒi/

Adjective

mangy (comparative mangier, superlative mangiest)

1. Afflicted with mange.
2. (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.

   Synonyms: decrepit, scruffy, shabby

   We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.

   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in Heart of Darkness:

     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.

Translations

afflicted with mange

• Arabic: أَجْرَب‎ (ʾajrab)
• French: galeux (fr)
• German: krätzig (de), räudig (de)
• Italian: rognoso m, scabbioso m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گەڕ‎ (gerr)

• Norman: galeux
• Polish: parszywy (pl)
• Portuguese: sarnento (pt)
• Russian: чесо́точный (ru) (česótočnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: šugav (sh) m, шугав
• Spanish: sarnoso (es)

worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit — See also translations at shabby

• German: schäbig (de)

• Russian: убо́гий (ru) (ubógij), запу́щенный (ru) (zapúščennyj)

Further reading

• “mangy” (US) / “mangy” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.