- a variation of mangy.
mangey
Americanadjective
adjective
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Of course, the mangey creature—ceasing the while from its perennial self-scratching—will hoot something derogatory.
From Pickwickian Studies by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
Well, we had six or seven mangey harriers and beagles belonging to the house, I'll allow, and had had them for years, and that the Doctor put them down.
From Tom Brown's School Day's by Thomas Hughes
The chairs were piled with soft blue chiffons, dainty white under-garments, and plumed hats and mangey furs.
From Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman by Annabel Sharp
From the miserable mangey appearance of this animal I conjectured that it had belonged to the natives who were probably skulking about us, and who are very much attached to their dogs.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Thomas Mitchell
You probably been currying that mangey old horse of yours before you went to milking," Hetty snorted, "and tasted his cancerous old hide on your fingers.
From Make Mine Homogenized by Kelly Freas
Instead, it embraced something mangier and more tethered to general youth culture.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2016
And after that to be ready, al mangier ou al revele; i.e., to eat or to revel, according to the ordinance of the master and wardens of the fraternity.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Hunters with the highest kill count, the mangiest kill or the largest or smallest take home cash, belt buckles, hunting gear or other prizes.
From US News ● Jan. 22, 2016
Ill-shaven and semicomatose, Belushi plays the mangiest animal of them all.
From Time Magazine Archive
Orange-robed Buddhist monks contemplate under bougainvillaea and tamarind trees, watched by some of the mangiest dogs west of El Paso.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Oh,—a fur coat!” cried Peggy, “why, mine—mine has just the mangiest bit of a fur collar, and I’ve been proud enough of that—wait, just wait till I get a wonderful young caracal!”
From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Annabel Sharp
Master Billy came tumbling in with a torn jacket, a bloody nose, the traces of a few tears in his eyes, and the mangiest of cur dogs in his hands.
From Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor by Thomas L. Masson
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