Mank

//mæŋk// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something that is disgusting or manky. British, slang, uncountable

    "The plumber had to get all the mank out of the drain."

Verb
  1. 1
    To mutilate. obsolete, transitive
Adjective
  1. 1
    Disgusting, repulsive. British, not-comparable, slang

    "When he eats, he never closes his mouth. It's so mank."

  2. 2
    Synonym of manky (“being or having bad weather”). not-comparable, slang

    "Antarctica can be dingle, with clear skies, or mank, with nothing of the sort."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

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mankymingminging

Antonyms

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dingle

Example

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"When he eats, he never closes his mouth. It's so mank."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English manken, from Old English *mancian, bemancian (“to maim, mutilate”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Middle Low German mank (“lame, defective”), Dutch mank (“lame, defective”), and Middle High German manc (“lack, defect”). Perhaps from Latin mancus (“maimed, crippled, frail, incomplete”), from Proto-Indo-European *mank-, *menk- (“maimed, mutilation, torment”).

Etymology 2

Via Polari, from Italian mancare (“to be lacking”), from Latin mancus (“maimed”). See above.

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