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mank

mank

English

Verb

mank ‎(third-person singular simple present manks, present participle manking, simple past and past participle manked)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To mutilate.
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Etymology 2

Via Polari, from Italian mancare ‎(“to be lacking”), from Latin mancus ‎(“maimed”). See above.

Adjective

mank ‎(not comparable)

  1. (Britain, slang, originally Polari) Disgusting, repulsive.
    When he eats, he never closes his mouth. It's so mank.
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Noun

mank ‎(uncountable)

  1. (Britain, slang, originally Polari) Something that is disgusting or manky.
    The plumber had to get all the mank out of the drain.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑŋk

Adjective

mank ‎(comparative manker, superlative mankst)

  1. lame

Inflection

Inflection of mank
uninflected mank
inflected manke
comparative manker
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial mank manker het mankst
het mankste
indefinite m./f. sing. manke mankere mankste
n. sing. mank manker mankste
plural manke mankere mankste
definite manke mankere mankste
partitive manks mankers —

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Etymology

From Middle English manken, from Old English mancian, bemancian ‎(“to maim, mutilate”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Dutch and Middle Low German mank ‎(“lame, defective”), Middle High German manc ‎(“lack, defect”). Perhaps from Latin mancus ‎(“maimed, crippled, frail, incomplete”), from Proto-Indo-European *mank-, *menk- ‎(“maimed, mutilation, torment”).

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