mangey
Americanadjective
adjective
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The chairs were piled with soft blue chiffons, dainty white under-garments, and plumed hats and mangey furs.
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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.
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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.
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Of course, the mangey creature—ceasing the while from its perennial self-scratching—will hoot something derogatory.
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The very stuffed beasts, perched above old Dicky's shop, had got to look real mangey and mouldy.
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