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# mangy

«mangy» in Mova's school dictionary: **having patchy, thin fur or skin from a disease, or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (mangier, mangiest)

### meaning for a pupil

Mangy means having patchy, thin fur or skin from a disease, or looking shabby and worn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mangy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a wild or old animal that looks ill and scruffy; the man-eaters are called mangy

### examples

- The mangy old dog had patches of bare skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mangy/#x1)
- The man-eaters were mangy and had lost their teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mangy/#x2)
- Don't pat a mangy stray cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mangy/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mangy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mangy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.