different between mangy vs frowsy

English

Alternative forms

• mangey

Etymology

mange +? -y

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?n?j?, IPA^(key): /?me?nd?i/

Adjective

mangy (comparative mangier, superlative mangiest)

1. Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
2. (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.

   Synonyms: decrepit, scruffy, shabby

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Further reading

• “mangy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Alternative forms

• frowzy

Etymology

Unknown, but perhaps related to the dialectal adjective frowsty. Attested since the 1680s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?a?zi/

Adjective

frowsy (comparative frowsier, superlative frowsiest)

1. Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.
   • 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter 3, [2]

     Frowsy girls sat along the curbstones before their baskets.

   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1, [3]

     He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town (just what quarter he did not now remember) and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.

   See also citations under frowzy.

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