mangy

English

Alternative forms

• mangey

Etymology

From mange +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mānʹjē, IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪn.d͡ʒi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪndʒi

Adjective

mangy (comparative mangier, superlative mangiest)

1. Afflicted, or looking as if 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.

   • 1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion):

     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.

   • 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: Spectral Ravine:

     Specter Knight: 'YOUR QUEST TO BECOME KING OF CARDS HAS NOT... GONE UNNOTICED.' / King Knight: 'AH, WORD HAS REACHED THE SLUMS, HAS IT? AM I TO TRAVEL WITH AN ENTOURAGE OF MANGY BEGGARS, NOW?'

Translations

afflicted with mange

• Arabic: أَجْرَب (ʔajrab)

  Hijazi Arabic: جربان (jarbān)

• Bulgarian: кра́став (bg) (krástav)
• Catalan: ronyós (ca), sarnós (ca)
• Czech: prašivý
• Dutch: schurftig (nl)
• Esperanto: skabia
• Finnish: kapinen (fi)
• French: galeux (fr)
• German: krätzig (de), räudig (de)
• Irish: gearbach
• Italian: rognoso m, scabbioso m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گەڕ (gerr), گەڕۆڵ (gerroll)

  Northern Kurdish: gurî (ku)

• Latin: scaber
• Norman: galeux (Jersey)
• Polish: parszywy (pl)
• Portuguese: sarnento (pt)
• Romanian: râios (ro) m
• Russian: чесо́точный (ru) (česótočnyj), парши́вый (ru) m (paršívyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шу̏гав

  Roman: šȕgav (sh)

• Spanish: sarnoso (es)
• Swedish: skabbig (sv)
• Ukrainian: коро́стявий (koróstjavyj)

worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit — see also shabby

• Czech: opelichaný
• German: schäbig (de)
• Russian: убо́гий (ru) (ubógij), запу́щенный (ru) (zapúščennyj), парши́вый (ru) (paršívyj)

Further reading

• “mangy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.