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Manky

//ˈmæŋki// adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang

    ""He don't want those," his father said, holding a bag of apples at the end of an outstretched arm as if they were a danger to his health, "they're all... manky.""

  2. 2
    Being or having bad weather. slang

    "On that occasion, we left Punta Arenas blue-eyed shags beat their way across the icy waves; when you glimpse at close quarters as I did one manky morning in the Lemaire Channel the blurred shape of a humpback whale […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    inferior and worthless wordnet

Etymology

From mank + -y.

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