Associations to the word «Mangy»

Wiktionary

MANGY, adjective. Afflicted with mange.
MANGY, adjective. Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.

Dictionary definition

MANGY, adjective. Having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap; "a mangy carpet"; "a mangy old fur coat".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne