Meaning & use
Mangey
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Affected with mange, or, more generally, shabby and scruffy in appearance.
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A mangey stray dog wandered along the alley looking for scraps.
The old hotel's mangey carpet hadn't been replaced in decades.
A note on using this word
Mangey is an accepted variant spelling of the more common 'mangy'; both derive from 'mange,' a skin disease caused by parasitic mites.
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mangyshabby
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