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MANGINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manginess mean? 

MANGINESS (noun)
  The noun MANGINESS has 1 sense:

1. a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothingplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


MANGINESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

manginess; seediness; shabbiness; sleaziness

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

inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manginess"):

raggedness (shabbiness by virtue of being in rags)

Derivation:

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


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