mangy

• mangey

From mange +‎ -y.

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

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• Rhymes: -eɪndʒi

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?'

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