scrungy

English

Etymology

From scrunge +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskrʌndʒi/

Adjective

scrungy (comparative scrungier, superlative scrungiest)

1. grungy; shabby and dirty
   • 2000, Jason Fury, His Eyes Were Dark, He Licked His Lips, page 10:

     Along a scrungy area of Fourteenth Street, a dim light glowed four stories above the white ground. A shadow paced behind the window, sipping from a goblet, pausing occasionally to stare at the wind-swept scene below.

   • 2011, Charles Pflueger, Island Fever: Life Adventures in Search of Island Paradise, page 85:

     His logic overwhelmed me and I found that drinking beer in a scrungy dump featuring dirt floors and a scratching chicken at 9 am, seemed perfectly normal after a couple of days.

   • 2012, Neil Baker, Delusions, page 89:

     What had once been a bathroom with a toilet was now a scrungy looking tiled room with a hole in the floor where the toilet was missing, and a shower that had neither knobs nor faucet but which contained a pile of ashes […]