Usually means: Infested with mites, scruffy appearance.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word MANGY:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. mangy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mangy: Merriam-Webster
  3. mangy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mangy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mangy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mangy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mangy, mangy: Wordnik
  8. mangy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mangy: Wiktionary
  10. mangy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mangy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mangy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. mangy: Dictionary.com
  14. mangy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mangy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mangy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. mangy: Rhymezone
  18. Mangy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. mangy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. mangy: FreeDictionary.org
  21. mangy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. mangy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mangy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mangy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. mangy: Medical dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mangy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Mangy: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. Mangy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mangy)

▸ adjective:  Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
▸ adjective:  (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.
▸ adjective:  Contemptible, despicable, low.

Similar:
mangey, worn, manged, maungy, scabby, flea-ridden, murrained, maculated, disaffected, maggoted, more...

Opposite:
healthy, well-groomed, well-kept, sleek, glossy

Types:
mange-ridden, mangy as a dog, more...

Phrases:
mangy pets, mangy mutt, more...

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Similar:
mangey, worn, manged, maungy, scabby, flea-ridden, murrained, maculated, disaffected, maggoted, more...

Opposite:
healthy, well-groomed, well-kept, sleek, glossy

Types:
mange-ridden, mangy as a dog, more...

Phrases:
mangy pets, mangy mutt, more...



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