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▪ I. mangy, a.|ˈmeɪndʒɪ|
Also 6 mangye, 6–7 maungy, mangie, 7 maingy, 7, 9 mangey.
[f. mange n. + -y.]
1. Having the mange; of the nature of or caused by the mange. † In 16–17th c. also of human beings or their ailments: Scabby (obs.).
1526Skelton Magnyf. (E.E.T.S.) 1123 Fol. In faythe, there is not a better dogge{ddd}Fan. Ye, but trowest thou that he be not maungey? c1540Heywood Four P. P. 629 A goodly thynge for dogges that be mangy. 1571in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 336 Any kynde of mangy cattle or horses infected wth the glaunders of the chyne. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. i. xl. 29 If the Mayne be mangie you shall annoynt it with Butter and Brimstone. 1647Trapp Comm. Jas. i. 25 So shalt thou see thy face..so shamefully sawcy, mangy, pocky and scabbed. 1683Tryon Way to Health 68 Many Leperous and Mangy Diseases. 1688Persec. Piedmont 40 By continual lying..these poor People were become so mangy, that their very skin..parted from their Flesh. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. xlix. (1738) 185 Rub the Mangy places gently with a woollen Cloth. 1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 131 They had a mangey Dog. 1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 157 In my last communication, I made a few remarks on Dr. Rowley's ox-faced boy; in my present I propose to give a short account of his mangey girl. 1889J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 207 A French poodle,..mangy about the middle.
fig.1606Dekker Sev. Sinnes vi. (Arb.) 39 And..being rubd with quicksiluer, which they loue because they haue mangy consciences.
Comb.1609Dekker Guls Horne-bk. i. 8 To shew that you truly loath this polluted and mangy-fisted world.
2. Squalid, poverty-stricken, shabby, ‘seedy’.
a1529Skelton Dk. Albany 138 Euer to remayne In wretched beggary And maungy misery. 1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1550) 32 He [hauynge] nothynge of them agayne but a mangye monkes cowle and hys buryall in Paules. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 1 Pantofles..mangie at the toes, lyke an Ape about the mouth. 1844Thackeray Contrib. to Punch Wks. (Biog. ed.) VI. 81 The Royal Palace..resembles Newgate whitewashed and standing on a sort of mangy desert. 1859Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 172 It is full of bad smells, mangy little shops,..and bad characters. 1860Mayhew Upp. Rhine ii. §i. 62 The..gardens are little better than a mangey coppice. 1883Longm. Mag. July 258 A mangy old cloth coat is preferred. 1886H. F. Lester Under two Fig Trees 177 A sprig or two of mangy grass.
3. Used as a general term of contempt: Beggarly, mean, ‘lousy’.
1538Bale Thre Lawes E vij b, The lorde doth not regarde Your mangy mutterynge. a1625Fletcher Woman's Prize iv. i, You have abused me..such a way that shames the name of Husband, Such a malicious-mangy way. a1653G. Daniel Idylls iii. 124 If some bolder wakes The Mangie Scribe tells what y⊇ Pigeon speakes. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. lxvi. (1737) 271 Thou mangy Noddy-peak! 1896J. K. Snowden Web of Old Weaver x. 127, I cannot see that it much benefits any man to tell him all these mangy quaverings. 1922Joyce Ulysses 735 We have to be thankful for our mangy cup of tea. Ibid., The old mangy parcel he sent at Xmas. 1930R. Campbell Poems 10 The poet wags his mangy stump of rhyme. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang § 30/4 Poor; mean; contemptible..mangy.
▪ II. mangy
obs. form of mange n.1 |