mungy
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[edit]Etymology
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Adjective
[edit]mungy (comparative more mungy, superlative most mungy)
- (informal) dingy; of a dull and indeterminate colour
- 2010, Sheila Simonson, Buffalo Bill's Defunct: A Latouche County Mystery:
- He glanced down at the knee-shot jeans and the T-shirt that peeked out from a mungy gray zippered sweatshirt.
- 2011, Robin Reardon, The Evolution of Ethan Poe, page 20:
- I'm just about to start my work of replacing signs when an old Jeep Wagoneer, kind of a mungy brown, pulls up. Max is driving, with Sylvia in the passenger seat.