MANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mange mean? 

• MANGE (noun)
  The noun MANGE has 1 sense:

1. a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people)

  Familiarity information: MANGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("mange" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

Derivation:

mangey; mangy (having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap)

 Context examples 

Mais oui, mademoiselle: voila cinq ou six heures que nous n'avons pas mange.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He meant the blanc mange, I suppose.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

All is well with us here, save that Pepin hath the mange on his back, and Pommers hath scarce yet got clear of his stiffness from being four days on ship-board, and the more so because the sea was very high, and we were like to founder on account of a hole in her side, which was made by a stone cast at us by certain sea-rovers, who may the saints have in their keeping, for they have gone from amongst us, as has young Terlake, and two-score mariners and archers, who would be the more welcome here as there is like to be a very fine war, with much honor and all hopes of advancement, for which I go to gather my Company together, who are now at Montaubon, where they pillage and destroy; yet I hope that, by God's help, I may be able to show that I am their master, even as, my sweet lady, I am thy servant.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meg wanted me to bring some of her blanc mange, she makes it very nicely, and Beth thought her cats would be comforting.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The blanc mange was lumpy, and the strawberries not as ripe as they looked, having been skilfully 'deaconed'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I'll have blanc mange and strawberries for dessert, and coffee too, if you want to be elegant.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That looks too pretty to eat, he said, smiling with pleasure, as Jo uncovered the dish, and showed the blanc mange, surrounded by a garland of green leaves, and the scarlet flowers of Amy's pet geranium.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)