Definitions for mangy

mangy man·gy

Spelling: [meyn-jee]
IPA: /ˈmeɪn dʒi/

Mangy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in mangy (agmny).

Definitions for mangy

adjective

  1. having, caused by, or like the mange.
  2. contemptible; mean:
  3. squalid; shabby:

Origin of mangy

First recorded in 1520-30; mange + -y1

Examples for mangy

He had goggling, bloodshot eyes, mangy moustaches, and a broken nose.

They're a mangy, stick-in-the-mud, follow-in-the-old-ruts crowd.

It was all rock, except in a few spots where there was some scrub bushes and mangy grass.

Git out o' here; I'm ashamed to be seen speakin' to a mangy hound like you.

We'll show 'em that we won't be bothered any longer with their mangy wars.

No trace of her passing on the hard earth with its mangy growth of grass.

So fine a fellow, and so mangy a following, it would be hard to find.

His practice was to wear on his head, in that tropical climate, a mangy fur cap.

Got his nerve with him, the mangy calf-eater, comin' up to the ranch thataway.

About his chest and shoulders hung a single, mangy garment of goat-skin.

Word Value for mangy
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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