manky
adjective/ˈmæŋki/
/ˈmæŋki/
(British English, informal)- dirty and unpleasantWord Origin1950s: probably from obsolete mank ‘mutilated, defective’, from Old French manque, from Latin mancus ‘maimed’.
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