mangy adj.
1. contemptible.
![]() | Widdow III i: That set me back two mangy hours at least. | |
![]() | Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) II ix: Did the mangy villains so play upon thy sack-but? so maul this poor round-belly? a parcel of sapless twigs! | |
![]() | Richard Edney and the Governor’s Family 218: Who are they but mangy ship-jacks, half-baked upper crusts? | |
![]() | Rockhampton Bull. (Qld) 1 Oct. 3/2: It was but a simple and primitive socioety [...] when men caled each other Addlehead, Baldhead, Barebones, Bitch [...] Chisels, Dolt [...] Fogey [...] Gander [...] Maggot, Mangy, Muff, Muzzy. | |
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Oct. 12/1: It is earnestly desired that the new man when he invites his fellow citizens to the festive ‘hop,’ won’t request a favoured forty to ‘scorf’ the best vittles in a private room. To keep the best jelly for the cream is blank mange-y. | |
![]() | Adventures of Captain Kettle 298: ‘Out, you blitherer,’ he shouted, ‘and save your mangy life.’. | |
![]() | Arizona Nights II 222: Now, you mangy son of a gun. | |
![]() | Lighter Side of School Life 202: How is your mangy school? Wait till our XV plays you on the 18th! | |
![]() | Ulysses 702: The old mangy parcel he sent at Xmas a cottage cake and a bottle of hogwash he tried to palm off as claret. | |
![]() | Banjo 39: There was a little mangy-faced white there. | |
![]() | Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1962) 17: Mangy little snob. | |
![]() | Bound for Glory (1969) 354: You mangy little honky-tonk guitar-playin’ sot. | |
![]() | Jimmy Brockett 204: You double-crossing mangy bubonic rat! | |
![]() | Maori Girl 225: What a mangy-looking bunch! [...] My God, you must get around with some pretty low characters! | |
![]() | A Life (1981) Act II: The row there was over a mangy cup of coffee in her hand the one day in the week. | |
![]() | (con. 1920s) Emerald Square 246: That’s for you, yeh mangy fucker. | |
![]() | Grand Central Winter (1999) 114: A mangy black crackhead excuse for a pimp at her side. | |
![]() | Guardian 10 July 3: Paul Keating [...] called Mr Howard a ‘mangy maggot’. |
2. (Irish) mean, grasping, avaricious.
![]() | Cockney At Home 191: The show’s all over, far as I’m concerned. I wouldn’t perform to this mangy crowd now. | |
![]() | After the Wake (1981) 109: People looking out the windows at the footballers [...] screaming advice and abuse to young Coughlin not to be so mangy with the ball. | ‘The Same Again, Please’ in|
![]() | Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 5: That’s what’s known as a financial squeeze. Mangy brute! | |
![]() | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. |