mank
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æŋk
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English manken, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English mancian, bemancian (“to maim, mutilate”), of obscure origin. Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Low German mank (“lame, defective”), Middle High German manc (“lack, defect”). Perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mancus (“maimed, crippled, frail, incomplete”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *mank-, *menk- (“maimed, mutilation, torment”).
Verb
mank (third-person singular simple present manks, present participle manking, simple past and past participle manked)
- (transitive, obsolete) To mutilate.
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Etymology 2
Via Polari, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian mancare (“to be lacking”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mancus (“maimed”). See above.
Adjective
mank (not comparable)
- (British, slang, originally Polari) Disgusting, repulsive.
Noun
mank (uncountable)
- (British, slang, originally Polari) Something that is disgusting or manky.
- The plumber had to get all the mank out of the drain.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch manc (“a limping or lame person”), from Latin mancus (“maimed or defective”), from Proto-Indo-European *man-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *man-
Pronunciation
Adjective
mank (comparative manker, superlative mankst)
Inflection
Declension of mank | ||||
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uninflected | mank | |||
inflected | manke | |||
comparative | manker | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | mank | manker | het mankst het mankste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | manke | mankere | mankste |
n. sing. | mank | manker | mankste | |
plural | manke | mankere | mankste | |
definite | manke | mankere | mankste | |
partitive | manks | mankers | — |
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