mangy
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mangy or mangey (ˈmeɪndʒɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , -gier, -giest | |
| 1. | having or caused by mange: a mangy dog |
| 2. | scruffy or shabby: a mangy carpet |
| 3. | informal (Irish) stingy or miserly: a mangy reward |
| mangey or mangey | |
| —adj | |
| 'mangily or mangey | |
| —adv | |
| 'manginess or mangey | |
| —n | |
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Mangy
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example sentences
She is weak and mangy as she leaves the cave in search of food.
Often, people call saying they've sited a coyote when in fact, they've seen a gray fox or a mangy red fox.
Two or three miserable dogs accompanied them, half-starved and mangy, but each decorated with a collar of beads.
Often, people call saying they've seen a coyote when in fact, they've seen a gray fox or a mangy red fox.
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